Sin

Thomas Merton, Seven Storey Mountain

I’m thoroughly enjoying reading this autobiography. Here’s another example of why: “At Hyeres I had to wait a couple of days before the money arrived and when it did, the letter that went with it was filled with sharp reproofs. Tom, my guardian, took occasion of my impracticality to call attention to most of my …

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The Goodness of Knowing Our Badness

From Desiring GodFrom Rousseau to the Tom and Jerry Cartoons, Wheaton English Professor, Alan Jacobs, traces a “cultural history” of Original Sin, the name of his recent 304 page book. The most auspicious and provocative lines in Matt Jenson’s review in Books and Culture are these: Original sin’s deniers like to claim that the doctrine …

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