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A third (brief) visit to The Seven Storey Mountain
“The truth is that my inspiration to do something for the good of mankind had been pretty feeble and abstract from the start. I was still interested in doing good for only one person in the world– myself.” Thomas Merton
Man Turned in on Himself, Excerpt 12
We have said that the primary curbs that support and enforce marriage have historically been sexual consequences and social mores. It is not hard to imagine that as individuals became more inclined to reject sexual purity for themselves, they were less interested in condemning impurity in others. Shame, “the emotion that reveals a culture’s moralContinue reading “Man Turned in on Himself, Excerpt 12”
Man Turned in on Himself, excerpt 6
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”
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”
Heather Choate Davis 