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Although the meta-historical fall concept is addressed in several books published by prominent university presses, Dumsday has published the first direct engagement with the concept that I am aware of in a peer-reviewed journal.
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Encouraging to be read and shared by David Bentley Hart with this essay:
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"Jesus has no need of death but accomplishes God’s creative act upon the cross despite the death that we have brought upon our entire world."
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Only the steady light of Christ fully exposes the extent and brutality of the suffering that we in this hurting cosmos so sadly consider to be natural.
In classical metaphysics, evil is often “identified” as a privation of goodness and being. It is, however, best understood as the gap that we create by something left undone, unfinished or unloved.
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Jesse Hake retweeted
Andrew Kern writes about a romantic vision of education in "Unless the Lord Builds the House" @JesseHake discusses Kern's perspective on the inherent mystery of every created thing and the "shining forth" students and teachers may enjoy from studying.
“I equated the big bang with the beginning of everything but did not consider that it might instead be the manifestation of a primeval catastrophe.”
—Matthew J. Milliner hearing Father Pierre Teilhard de Chardin @millinerd
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“What God is ever doing a man must learn to do.” —George MacDonald
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Hart’s *All Things* pulverizes every university department boundary line. No one in any of their absurd little scholastic fox holes can have a clue what to do with it. It’s intentional academic harakiri by Hart, but this also makes it a real book.
“We’re not talking about the sort of ‘irreducible complexity’ that fascinates ‘Intelligent Design’ theorists since they too seem to think that organisms are machines, constructed according to patterns extrinsic to themselves by a God who’s little more than a divine mechanic.”
“It’s the living organism, more properly speaking, pursuing its own intrinsic ends within complex and changing environments, that uses genes selectively as templates to make the molecules it needs.” —Psyche
“As a negentropic process, moreover, life sustains itself ‘far from equilibrium’ precisely as both a flow of matter and energy in constant metabolism and yet also as a controlled state of continuous structural change.”