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From: Debbie Sawczak
To: 'Lance Muir'
Sent: March 15, 2006 22:14
Subject: having finished V's postmodernism lecture I mentioned the relational bit in my reply to your forwarded Wrightsaid post. For the rest: having been able to listen to it in context, and without distraction, I now also appreciate the section you were talking about, where he insists that the polar opposite of evil or wrong is NOT good/right, but the Holy One. This goes entirely with what he says in other places, including Human Person and Luther, about the moral and the immoral person being equidistant from the Kingdom, and what our message to people should be. For me,
another precious part was the hopefulness entailed by the fact that the
creation, though fallen, coheres in Christ. That is how we can know that all the
generations of compounded evil will not be able to tear it apart or reduce it to
chaos or rid it of goodness entirely. We do not have to fear entropy. What a
good antidote to the handwringing approach to the world taken by some versions
of Christianity! I see a connection too
between this and the quote I sent you from Nice too how he identified those aspects of postmodernism for which we can be thankful. All in all a great lecture, I agree. Thanks for the loan. D -- |
