Promiscuity, consumerism, obesity, narcissism, apathy, greed—these are just a few of the obvious displays of homo incurvatus in se in 21st-century America. These behaviors—or the consequences of them—are visible and often public. Even apathy is on display by the very lack of people showing up to meet a given need. But from a pastoral orContinue reading “Man Turned in on Himself, excerpt 6”
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Man Turned in on Himself, excerpt 5
How The Modern American Turns In On Himself: A Brief Overview Were Augustine to walk through malls of America he would come face to face with concupiscentia gone amok. Such is our disordered desire for “lower things.” Shoes and purses and berry-scented balms; entertainment systems that overshadow our ordinary lives with escapist fantasies; toys purchasedContinue reading “Man Turned in on Himself, excerpt 5”
Man Turned In on Himself, excerpt 4
Homo Incurvatus in Se in the 21st-Century American Individual When the Puritan John Winthrop set foot on American soil in 1630, he proclaimed, “we must delight in each other, make others’ conditions our own, rejoys together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, always having before our eyes our community as members of the same body.”Continue reading “Man Turned In on Himself, excerpt 4”
Man Turned in on Himself, excerpt 3
In the early pages of the thesis I am laying the historical, theological framework for Homo Incurvatus in Se. The bulk of the work then connects that image to current suffering in American culture and suggests how “united in brokenness” we might be healed…. It is essential to note that it is not the subjectContinue reading “Man Turned in on Himself, excerpt 3”
Man Turned in on Himself, excerpt 2
We begin with a simple premise: “sin” is dead. Not the state of sin, of course, or our ever-proliferating sinful acts, but the word itself, and the impact of the word, which, for the better part of human history has helped individuals and communities recognize when they were “missing the mark.” In contemporary American culture,Continue reading “Man Turned in on Himself, excerpt 2”
Heather Choate Davis 