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In my last two posts I have discussed the lack, or void, that seems to be intrinsic to the human experience. As I have suggested, the way we often deal with this sense of emptiness is to insist that it is an unnatural intruder that must be overcome, and further, the Christian solution is to […]
In our last article we considered the fact that we as humans feel within ourselves a lack or a void that we want to overcome. We often look to some “sacred object” that, if attained, will give us the sense of fulfillment we crave. We desperately want to avoid the void. Consider the words of […]
Those who have been following my work will know that I have been highlighting the concept of “Exile” as a kind of catch-all category to describe ideas like divine weakness, folly, and (what Luther called) the theology of the cross. Further, I am placing Exile in contradistinction from “Empire,” which is the source of ideas […]