tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6818410926770515168.post3308287123649660316..comments2023-07-31T05:39:10.524-05:00Comments on Redeeming Law: The Children of Men, by P.D. JamesMike Schutthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10954783205857823337noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6818410926770515168.post-38869974472829781352010-03-04T23:39:12.015-06:002010-03-04T23:39:12.015-06:00Greetings from Korea, Mike!
I thought of you thi...Greetings from Korea, Mike!<br /> <br />I thought of you this morning while reading Bonhoeffer in my study here at Handong in Korea. (I'm in my second semester of a visiting professorship in the U.S. & Int'l Law program within the University's undergraduate School of Law).<br /> <br /> I'm reading Bonhoeffer's little work on Temptation (its included in his Creation and Fall published by Simon & Schuster). In his chapter on "Concrete Temptations and Their Conquest", Bonhoeffer addresses the temptation to desperatio which he connects to acedia. (pp. 140-42).<br /> <br />Since you pick-up on acedia in your book, I thought you might be interested in his reflections on the topic of this temptation. Here's an inkling:<br />Here . . . the grace and promise of God are attacked and put to the test. In this way Satan robs the believer of all joy in the Word of God, all experience of the good God; in place of which he fills the heart with the terrors of the past, of the present and of the future. Old long-forgotten guilt suddenly rears up its head before me, as if it had happened today. Opposition to the Word of God and unwillingness to obey assume huge proportions, and compete despair of my future before god overwhelms my heart (p. 140).<br />I'm reading your blog with interest and passing the link along to my undergraduate students here many of whom are aspiring to study law in the States.<br /> <br />grace & peace,<br />cordellCordell P. Schultenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03505136741664824827noreply@blogger.com