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”
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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”
If only
“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?” —Continue reading “If only”
Heather Choate Davis 