Persistent fact, Man has structured his reality so as to deny it. That out of a sense of terror at this rather self-evident and annoyingly The obvious is the assertion that the central fact of Insightful, etc., this book totters uneasily between the obvious and the Though extravagantly praised as groundbreaking, revolutionary, uniquely Raymond Chapman (1924- ), The Ruined Tower (1961) The Christian hope finds ambivalence in death: To say that this world is in a fallen stateĪnd that not too much value must be set upon it, is very farįrom the Manichaean error of supposing it to be evil There mayĪppear a marked preoccupation with death and a rejection of all Other-worldliness to which the faith has always been liable,Įspecially in periods of stress and uncertainty. Succumb to his own kind of death-wish, to seek that extreme of Life is a process ofīecoming, and the moment of death is the transition from one The antithesis between death and life is not so stark for
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