Sublime

3Then the LORD said, “My spirit shall not abide[22] in mortals forever, for they are flesh; their days shall be one hundred twenty years.”

20 Ah, you who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! 21 Ah, you who are wise in your own eyes, and shrewd in your own sight! 22 Ah, you who are heroes in drinking wine and valiant at mixing drink, 23 who acquit the guilty for a bribe, and deprive the innocent

Über viele Jahrhunderte hinweg gab es eine Art moralisches Wissen der Menschen, wie das Zusammenleben funktioniert,

Huldrych Zwingli (1484–1531), the priest and humanist scholar who, as early as 1516, began preaching against clerical abuses, and whose sermons ‘from true, divine scripture’, starting in 1520, inaugurated a popular movement in Switzerland against such practices as priestly celibacy and the keeping of fasts.

To point out other people’s errors was a duty that Mr Bulstrode rarely shrank from,

heterodox

Kein Wort trifft so sehr das Wesen Gottes wie „Liebe“. Allerdings ist dieser Begriff heutzutage sehr schillernd geworden und wir haben keineswegs immer das vor Augen, worum es dabei wirklich geht. Dallas Willard definiert Liebe als den unbedingten Willen zum Guten – als ein selbstloses Wohlwollen15.