Michael Andrew Screech Quotes

Michael Andrew Screech was an emeritus fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. In 1992, he was honoured as a Chevalier in the French Legion of Honor. His translation of Montaigne's Essays has been widely recognized.

✵ 2. May 1926 – 1. June 2018

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“When reading the Renaissance authors who spread their religious ideas by laughter rather than by thumbscrew and stake, we find that they do not limit themselves to the few places in Scripture where laughter is presented as desirable and good. Both theology and their own sense of fun lead them to find laughter from one end of the Bible to the other.”

Michael Andrew Screech

Source: Laughter at the Foot of the Cross (1998), p. xxii

“Moria and stultitia are both rendered nowadays as 'folly', but both have far stronger senses than folly has now. They imply derangement of mind, madness, mania. Such are the defects attributed to Christians by the worldly-wise. And vice-versa.”

Michael Andrew Screech

Source: Laughter at the Foot of the Cross (1998), p. 73

“Although the mutual laughter may seem six of one and half-a-dozen of the other, it is not. The Christian is profoundly mad merely by the standards of the world. To the world the wicked seem wise, but are mad in the sight of God. The Christian is touched by the Infinite and will not only have the last laugh at the end of time: even now he laughs more insanely than the worldlings.”

Michael Andrew Screech

Source: Laughter at the Foot of the Cross (1998), p. 73

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