Sublime

is a moral rather than an intellectual defect.

John 15:1

CHAPTER

If we don’t use the resources available to us but instead want other resources we don’t have, then we’re testing God.

TEMPORARY RESIDENTS

The great nineteenth-century theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher wrote to defend Christianity to his friends, whom he called “the great cultured despisers.”4 Their antagonism toward the church had become cultural (not spiritual; it was about an aesthetic of pleasure, not an encounter with the transcendent).5

Morality is a luxury.

18 Ah, you who drag iniquity along with cords of falsehood,