Original Sin—A Theological Reading of Innovation

Creation, Contingency, and the Specter

The propensity to draw these manifold fault lines between good and evil is a recurring symptom of our tradition's dislocation from God.

First, the lines are sometimes drawn between different aspects of creation. Herman Dooyeweerd identifies three such dichotomous ways of understanding the world-or "ground motives"-in the history of Western

Yet I wonder if a narrative as broad and grand as he offers can ultimately avoid that question. Why do some ideas end up as part of the social imaginary while others do not?

the by-product of such persistent acquisition is a side we don’t see or talk about much: the necessary disposal of the old and boring.