More from Irrational Man

"... modern man seems even further from understanding himself than when he first began to question his own identity. Of documentation of external facts we have had enough to spare, more than the squirrellike scholars will ever be able to piece together into a single whole, enough to keep the busy popularizers spouting in bright-eyed knowledgeability the rest of their days; but of the inner facts - of what goes on at the center where the forces of our fate first announce themselves - we are still pretty much in ignorance, and most of the contemporary world is caught up in an unconscious and gigantic conspiracy to run away from these facts. Hence the necessity of returning to a subject that only appears to be well worn. With civilizations, as with individuals, the outer fact is often merely the explosion resulting from accumulated inner tension, the signs of which were plentifully present, though none of the persons concerned chose to heed them."

This is INSPIRED, INSPIRED work. Think of deeply existential law/gospel preaching and the insight of Augustine and Luther. On the surface, it seems like one is hearing the same message over and over. 'Why can't we move on the meat of Christian living,' I hear ad nauseum. Because that is not the meat. Law and gospel reveals and absolves the deep moving targets within the condition of man. It is from the inward that manifestations of the outward flow. That said, I expect no one to agree with me. - DOB