Dangling conversations 2

July 8, 2015
Dangling conversations 2 

Desipientiae Theologicae, Vol. 1, Art. 2

“Funny position . . . . I had, in a moment of inadvertence, created for myself a tie. How to define it precisely I don’t know. . . .  I only know that he who forms a tie is lost.” – Axel Heist in Joseph Conrad’s Victory

He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord: But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife. – the Apostle Paul in his own 1 Corinthians

(Translation: Better everyone be like me, for anything else is sadly less.)

Quantum Entanglement by Matthias Weinberger

Yes: “Better like I am,” the Apostle says, “like Adam before God gave him Eve.”

     That was a mistake, clearly. For one can be righteous, or one can be entangled. Either . . . or!

     Then, sin did not originate with Adam and Eve’s disobedience but in the Creator’s invention of Eve herself, blind to what Conrad (or his main character, Heyst) sees, that anyone that forms a tie will go wandering and eventually, inevitably, get lost.

     Is it heresy to suggest the Creator is blind – to anything (in any way)? Would it be better to call it a lack of empathy?* For it doesn’t look to me as if the fall began because God could no more put himself in Adam’s bare feet than his Apostle could understand married life. (See here.) Perhaps Jehovah’s aseity and his Apostle’s certainty are blindfolds cut from the same righteous cloth?

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* More about which (empathy) on Friday. Deviating from the lectionary, this week’s podcast is the story of Jesus’ visit to Martha and Mary (Luke 10).

     The Latin of the “title,” incidentally, is best translated Theological Follies.