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For the time being, in this moderate Aristotelian city, this site will contain information about Paul J. Griffiths’ writing and teaching. Here is his résumé; here is his curriculum vitae; & here is something good to read. You’ll find other information on the pages to the left.
I write out of necessity. Time needs to be filled & writing fills it by turning the sharpness of thought’s knives away from the bloody self-lacerating diminution of inwardness & toward the shaping and offering of wordgifts to the world. But I also write out of the conviction that the return of words to their giver is an appropriate mode of adoration. It is perhaps the only one possible for me. I should like to have my utterances taken away from me by the wordflood from which they come, & in that way to render homage to the verbum Dei.
Quis enim te discernit? Quid autem habes, quod non accepisti? Si autem accepisti, quid gloriaris, quasi non acceperis?
