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The Joy of Being Wrong: Original Sin Through Easter Eyes QUOTES

The Joy of Being Wrong: Original Sin Through Easter Eyes QUOTES

1 " The doctrine of original sin is the doctrine according to which divine forgiveness makes known the accidental nature of human mortality, thus permitting an entirely new anthropological understanding. "

― James Alison , The Joy of Being Wrong: Original Sin Through Easter Eyes

2 " I naturally think that my desire is mine, is of me, that I am it's subject and I know what I want. But so to think is not to see that desire is making me.

The me is a highly mutable construct, radically dependent on the desires of others.

The failure to recognize is not a mistake about something of which the ‘me’ might be conscious, but is a failure to rest peaceably on what made it possible for there to be a conscious “me” at all. "

― James Alison , The Joy of Being Wrong: Original Sin Through Easter Eyes