A working journal for psychoanalytic theory and religious living
If we have received perfect love from God, how can we remain fearful? Has not fear been cast out? When we act from love, we give to others the power to no longer be fearful, for they have received the type of love which casts out fear.
How did the crypto-Catholic Jacques Lacan give us the Calvinist Slavoj Žižek? And could St. Augustine's theology be the key?
To be able to concretely love people, we must learn to partner with the mystery of change, to summon its appearance, come what may, and to diligently dance whichever conjuring ritual we happen to have stumbled upon ourselves.
One way to see grace might be the power to create new and unexpected timelines.
The idea of assessing your spiritual progress will get you laughed at, and that's a damn shame.
