Yes, you read the title correctly. I’ve followed a fairly typical trajectory of being brought up with “I’m a lowly worm” theology towards an understanding of humans as essentially good, if marred by by sin. I was always under the impression that this was the “right” trajectory, but I’m having second thoughts, partly due to […]
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I re-stumbled across the following quote by the philosopher Simone Weil. I first encountered it in Pete Fitch’s “Theological Reflections on Suffering” course at SSU.
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvellous, intoxicating.
A great thought for a day and age where […]
