“To esteem “freedom of choice” as an expression of individual autonomy and the basis of human dignity and responsibility is to miss the point. The so-called freedom to be the “master of my fate, the captain of my soul” is at bottom joyless and cheerless. For this is a freedom which denies dependence on the other as the source of one’s own personhood. This “freedom of choice,” Barth rightly reminds us, is what lies behind the fall of humanity, not its emergence into true personhood. We are not only determined by the other, and ultimately and originally by God, but we are made to respond in such a way that we do this “gladly,” in joyful recognition of our own being. This is the image and likeness of God.”
~ Ray S. Anderson, On Being Human: Essays in Theological Anthropology
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Sunday, March 21, 2010
Saturday, February 13, 2010
On Upbringing
If anyone has ever watched the show on A&E called Intervention, they would know that in each episode, at about 12 minutes in, there is a feature of the person's childhood. I have always noticed that, to a person, they use their upbringing as the core of their addictions.
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