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knowledge forever and unbridgeably beyond our grasp:
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Fr. Keefe, citing numerous sources, states that Plato's own ultimate
'resolution' of the conundrum was in myth, and also in the Greek
liturgies that had long re-presented the paradigm and 'resolved' it.
- - A Brief Digression: Marriage
A brief digression in this Knucklehead's Guide to Plato is in point
here, for it notices something that Fr. Keefe brings up in Covenantal
Theology, and is very important to a book called "covenantal" (that is,
nuptial, marital) theology. The paradigm we are discussing, and its
various 'resolutions,' has had one of its most ancient and enduring
representations in the representation of the relationship between man
and woman.
As Fr. Keefe notes, that particular representation of the paradigm
much predates the beginnings of "philosophy." It was fundamentally
represented and 'resolved' in the patterns of a religious rite. When Plato
'resolved' the tensions that manifest themselves in his own
representation of a paradigm that at first glance has nothing to do with
sex and marriage, he appealed to ancient Greek liturgies and myths
that were precisely representations and 'resolutions' of sex and
marriage.
We need to remember that this sexual, marital representation and
'resolution' of the paradigm much pre-dated even the ancient Greeks,
and was much more pervasive even than Greek religion, shown in the
following:
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