There is no wicked and numinous paternal 'they'. There are … - James Alison

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There is no wicked and numinous paternal 'they'. There are only brothers and sisters like ourselves: fragile receivers and mete-ers out of ambivalent and often fratricidal fraternity.

James Alison

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James Alison (born 1959) is a Catholic Christian theologian and priest. He is noted for his application of René Girard's anthropological theory to Christian theology and for his work on gay issues.

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Benedict XVI René Girard Simone Weil Søren Kierkegaard Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Any profound damage or hurt which we may well have received at the hands of the guardians of our infancy and childhood are particular instances of the package of bad fraternity which precedes those guardians, and which they, just like us, have not overcome fully enough.

There is nothing harder than to be told that what we hold sacred is an idol. (64).

Sin is resistance, in the name of God, to the creative work of God which seeks to include us all.

There is no wicked and numinous paternal 'they'. There are only brothers and sisters like ourselves: fragile receivers and mete-ers out of ambivalent… - James Alison

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