This work serves as a bridge between the authors first (Vocation and Communion) and latest work (Enduring Doubt). This short meditation offers a reflection on the salvation offered through Christ's crucifixion, human instinct and evolution, the nature of sin and the paradox of freedom born from discipline and new life born from the death and resurrection of Christ.
Originally authored as a momentary meditation, this work found a necessary phase of revision during the Great Pandemic and social upheaval of 2020. In that year the author, considering all positions presented by society, came to the conclusion that order, identity and institutions provide a path to peace, harmony and liberation from injustice.
The two key principles of the work unfold as follows:
- Evolution seems to will the perpetual escape from death and decay. As evolutionary creatures we must come to realize that our sense of reason takes us far, but only through faith can the race of evolution find any fulfillment because the only way to escape death and decay is to offer yourself to the other, the only way to have the fullness of life is to surrender and empty oneself for those that one loves.
- Sin and Virtue can be measured by our willingness to persevere and stay connected with the institutions of family and civilization: the precepts of the family unit, the precepts of citizenship in a human society, and the precepts of human identity.
This work serves as a bridge between the authors first (Vocation and Communion) and latest work (Enduring Doubt). This short meditation offers a reflection on the salvation offered through Christ's crucifixion, human instinct and evolution, the nature of sin and the paradox of freedom born from discipline and new life born from the death and resurrection of Christ.
Originally authored as a momentary meditation, this work found a necessary phase of revision during the Great Pandemic and social upheaval of 2020. In that year the author, considering all positions presented by society, came to the conclusion that order, identity and institutions provide a path to peace, harmony and liberation from injustice.
The two key principles of the work unfold as follows:
- Evolution seems to will the perpetual escape from death and decay. As evolutionary creatures we must come to realize that our sense of reason takes us far, but only through faith can the race of evolution find any fulfillment because the only way to escape death and decay is to offer yourself to the other, the only way to have the fullness of life is to surrender and empty oneself for those that one loves.
- Sin and Virtue can be measured by our willingness to persevere and stay connected with the institutions of family and civilization: the precepts of the family unit, the precepts of citizenship in a human society, and the precepts of human identity.
Unto Death: A Meditation on Evolution & Christian Resurrection
66
Unto Death: A Meditation on Evolution & Christian Resurrection
66Paperback
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781666255157 |
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| Publisher: | Barnes & Noble Press |
| Publication date: | 06/01/2020 |
| Pages: | 66 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.16(d) |