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The Shattering of Loneliness - On Christian Remembrance (Paperback)
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The Shattering of Loneliness - On Christian Remembrance (Paperback)
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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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