No, Really, In What Do You Place Your Hope? Purgatory VII-IX

In what do we place our hope? We Christians know to answer, reflexively, “In Christ!” But in some sense that is not to take the question literally. The Light Between Truth and Reason If I’m honest, when I say, “I put my hope in Christ,” I’m in part treating the question as aspirational or normative,…
Transformation and Transgression| Cantos XXV-XXVI

Reading Journal Home << Previous Entry Next entry >> Horrible Visions (Canto XXV) Cantos XXV and XXVI move quickly from thought to thought such that you can almost miss what holds the episodes together, which is the transgression of right order or proper boundaries. They both feature the poetic modesty we saw at the beginning of…
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