The experience of loneliness is as universal as hunger or thirst.
Because it affects us more intimately, we are less inclined to speak
of it. But who has not known its gnawing ache? The fear of loneliness
causes anguish. It prompts reckless deeds. To this, every age has
borne witness. No voice is more insidious than the one that whispers
in our ear: 'You are irredeemably alone, no light will pierce your
darkness.' The fundamental statement of Christianity is to convict
that voice of lying. The Christian condition unfolds within the
certainty that ultimate reality, the source of all that is, is a
personal reality of communion, no metaphysical abstraction. Men and
women, made 'in the image and likeness' of God, bear the mark of that
original communion stamped on their being. When our souls and bodies
cry out for Another, it is not a sign of sickness, but of health. A
labour of potential joy is announced. We are reminded of what we have
it in us to become. That our labour may be fruitful, Scripture
repeatedly exhorts us to 'remember'. The remembrance enjoined is
partly introspective and existential, partly historical, for the God
who took flesh to redeem our loneliness leaves traces in history. This
book examines six facets of Christian remembrance, complementing
biblical exegesis with readings from literature, ancient and modern.
It aims to be an essay in theology. At the same time, it proposes a
grounded reflection on what it means to be a human being.
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ISBN
9781472953261
Publisert
2020
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Bloomsbury Continuum
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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