Ryan Haecker
@RyanHaecker
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PhD @Cambridge_Uni | Fellow @AmAcademyRome @NTOntologies | Theology of Logic & Technology
Austin, TX
Joined March 2016
After many years, our book New Trinitarian Ontologies is coming soon.
New Trinitarian Ontologies, Volume 1.Edited by @johnmilbank3, @RyanHaecker, @jdlyonhart .Coming Soon
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"The earth is degenerating today. Bribery and corruption abound. Children no longer obey their parents, every man wants to write a book, and it is evident that the end of the world is fast approaching." .- Assyrian tablet, c. 2800 BC
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A French woman with her baguette and six bottles of wine, Paris, France, 1945. (Photo by Branson Decou).
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Panagia Sumela is a functioning Orthodox monastery of the Orthodox Church of Constantinople, built at the end of the 4th - beginning of the 5th century AD on the chalk rock of Trabzon.
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Napoleon gave his one-time fiancée Désirée Clary a reading list to encourage her to be less boring. Later, she married Jean Bernadotte, became the Queen of Sweden, & joined the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon.
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Underground city of Derinkuyu once housed 20 000 People, encompassing 18 levels of tunnels.
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Elk saddled up and being ridden through Missoula Montana, 1910.
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"A friend wondered why we were not building cathedrals now like the famous goths, and I said to him: 'the men of those times had convictions; we, the modern, have nothing but opinions, and to raise a gothic cathedral takes more than an opinion'.".- Christian Johann Heinrich Heine
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Flower pedals from the oculus of the Roman Pantheon on the Feast of Pentecost
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The town of Palmanova, Italy, built as a star fort by the Venetian Republic in 1593.
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"Silence is God's first language." .— St John of the Cross
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Swiss psychologist and genetic epistemologist Jean Piaget sitting in his home office, 1979.
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Plans to construct a Baroque church in the Roman Colosseum, c. AD 1675.
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"The earth is degenerating today. Bribery and corruption abound. Children no longer obey their parents, every man wants to write a book, and it is evident that the end of the world is fast approaching.".- Assyrian tablet, c. 2800 BC
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Fall of the Rebel Angels, carved out of a single piece of marble in 1740 by Italian sculptor Agostino Fasolato, it depicts 60 fallen angels.
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The lesson of this story is: be nice to your ex-gf, if you don't want a Swedish army to surround you when you are fighting for your life in the heart of Germany.
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'Greatest academic footnote of all time' prize goes to the Orthodox theologian Nicholas Berdyaev
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The Unabomber’s cabin in FBI storage is the most David Lynch thing I’ve ever seen.
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The dilemma of post-modernity:."I'm tired of Nietzsche and I'm scared of Heidegger.".- Louis Althusser, August 6th 1984,
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A lone soldier admires the beauty of the Alps on the Italian Front of World War I, 1914-1918.
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"Why the internet dating hype is fallacious. It works on the assumption that you are going to review all the possibilities on offer and take the best, in order to enjoy safe love. But life’s not like that!. Love begins when something impossible is overcome." .- Alain Badiou
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A manuscript page of Fyodor Dostoevsky's 'The Brothers Karamazov'
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Fr. Georges Lemaître explaining his newly-proposed "Big Bang Theory" to Pope Pius XII (1951). Albert Einstein was in the audience.
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"What inclines even me to believe in Christ's Resurrection? It is as though I play with the thought. -- If he did not rise from the dead, then he decomposed in the grave like any other man. He is dead and decomposed. In that case he is a teacher like any other and can no longer
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"Hegel without Marx is unrealistic, and in the end obscurantist. Marx without Hegel would have been rigid, mechanical, and inhuman.".- Alasdair MacIntyre
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The Codex Amiatinus, the oldest surviving complete Bible in Latin. It's one of three copies of the Vulgata produced by Benedictine monks in Northumbria around the year 700. It was sent to Rome in 716 as a gift for Pope St. Gregory II and is today in Florence.
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The Hawaiian archipelago would be the world's tallest mountain range when measured from the base to the summit.
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@AurelianofRome No, Napoleon was above average height. In 1815 he was described by an English captain as 'a remarkably strong, well-built man, about five feet seven inches high'. The story that he was short and angry is simply a myth that has been spread by British anti-Bonapartist propaganda.
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Sagrada Família in Barcelona completed with drone lighting.
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The title page of the oldest manuscript of Plato's Republic. Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Gr. 1807.
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"As Peter Geach puts it, for [Thomas] Aquinas the claim that God made the world 'is more like 'the minstrel made music' than 'the blacksmith made a shoe''; and that is to say, creation is an ongoing activity rather than a once-and-for-all event. While the shoe might continue to
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"[Origen] towers over Christian theological history. After Paul, there is no single Christian figure to whom the whole tradition is more indebted. It was Origen who taught the church how to read scripture as a living mirror of Christ, who evolved the principles of later
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When I was young, I used to write commentaries on Plato's Parmenides
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After nearly five years since I had received a scholarship, I have now been unanimously approved by @CamDivinity to be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Theology and Religious Studies from @Peterhouse_Cam @Cambridge_Uni.
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The lives of the saints are themselves interpretations of the gospel. - Hans Urs Von Balthasar
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"I myself never understood contemporary analytic philosophy until I had spent ten years studying Hegel.".- Stanley Rosen, The Limits of Analysis, Yale University press, 1980, p.233
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Please only buy your children Terry Pinkard's new Cambridge University Press translation of G.W.F. Hegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit.
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'If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.'.- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 6.4311
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What is mystical is not how the world is but that it is . ' (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Peter Tyler argues that both were galvinised through their reading to 'see the world aright' by a radical form of writing known as 'mystical'.
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There are two schools of French philosophy: turtlenecks & bare-chests.
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Neoplatonist Symposium Dinner Party on Plato's Seventh Letter
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“Plato, the greatest ṣūfī amongst the ancients…”.- Ibn Khaldūn (d. 1406), Shifā’ al-Sā’il li-Tahdhīb al-Masā’il 2:2
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The Magi by J.C. Leyendecker, magazine illustration from 1900.
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I am delighted and honoured to announce that I have now accepted a new job as University Librarian and Assistant Professor of Theology at @uaustinorg.
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"Hegel sweeps away any notion that faith and reason are at odds, and has no time for a Wolffian concordat between proximate but separate spheres for theology and philosophy; and he makes human epistemological self-confidence inseparable from confidence in God: only in relation to
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A friend wondered why we were not building cathedrals now like the famous goths, and I said to him: 'the men of those times had convictions; we, the modern, have nothing but opinions, and to raise a gothic cathedral takes more than an opinion'. - Christian Johann Heinrich Heine
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Althouh he treated her like a home improvement project, Napoleon was nice enough to invite Désirée to follow Josephine at his imperial coronation.
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Either mathematics is too big for the human mind or the human mind is more than a machine. - Kurt Gödel
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When the Greek idea of logic is penetrated by Christian theology, something new is born: the medium of language, in which the mediation of the incarnation event achieves its full truth. - Hans-Georg Gadamer, Truth and Method, p. 427
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A complete Rainbow, photo taken at 30,000 feet altitude by Pilot Lloyd J Ferraro. 📷 Lloyd J. Ferraro
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Seven years ago today I walked to Magdalene College at the University of Cambridge for my first doctoral supervision meeting with Rowan Williams.
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I will soon begin teaching for @uaustinorg.
Introducing Ryan Haecker (@RyanHaecker), Assistant Professor of Theology. Dr. Haecker comes from the University of Cambridge, and explores the absolute questions of logic, science, and technology. Read more:
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On Friday 29 April, I graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Theology and Religious Studies from @Peterhouse_Cam @Cambridge_Uni.
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Myth is not prehistory; it is timeless reality, which repeats itself in history. - Ernst Jünger, The Forest Passage
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Tomorrow morning, I will graduate with a PhD degree in Theology from @Peterhouse_Cam @Cambridge_Uni
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All knowers know God implicitly in all they know. - Saint Thomas Aquinas
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Truth never ages. Ideologies have their days numbered. - Pope Benedict XVI
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"Compline still contains the mystical and metaphysical primeval power of night, which we have to pierce continually in order truly exist. The Compline: a symbol of the existence being held out into the night and of the inner necessity of daily readiness for it. ".- M. Heidegger
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90 years ago, in 1933, Alfonso Bialetti invented the Moka Express and changed the image of domestic coffee in Italy and perhaps worldwide.
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"Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our knees.".- Gregory of Nyssa, The Life of Moses
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The Tradition of Hermes Trismegistus: The Egyptian Priestly Figure as a Teacher of Hellenized Wisdom, by Christian H. Bull. Brill. Boston, MA. 2018. 532 pages.
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A rare snow leopard roaming on Mount Everest at 18,000ft, photo published in @thetimes today by Kittiya Pawlowski.
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It’s the 700th anniversary of the death of the great poet Dante Alighieri, the Father of Italian Language!
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"The earth is degenerating today. Bribery and corruption abound. Children no longer obey their parents, every man wants to write a book, and it is evident that the end of the world is fast approaching.".- Assyrian tablet, c. 2800 BC
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