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We need to rediscover contradiction as a creative force within the soul.
John O'Donohue • Anam Cara: 25th Anniversary Edition
For Augustine, those moments of “uncanniness”—of Unheimlich not-at-home-ness—are like postcards from the self you’re called to be.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
What values and practices can hold people together as the institutions in which they live fragment?
Richard Sennett • The Culture of the New Capitalism
breed. In an impersonal world, “in-ness” can only go as far as cultural or natural categories. In-ness can have no nonmaterial quality, let alone be imagined as a way of the divine and human encountering.
Andrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
Being estranged from one’s own life can be how a world reappears, becoming odd.
Sara Ahmed • Living a Feminist Life
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Richard Rohr • Falling Upward
“man finds himself simultaneously driven to act and free to reflect.”
Erich Neumann • The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype (Works by Erich Neumann Book 15)
Lombard’s eagerness to distance himself from the language of the humanity as a homo assumptus, a complete individual entering into union with the Word, leads him to a theory that risks evacuating the humanity of its coherence as a genuine item in the created world.