![]() ![]() ![]() Over the course of the spring term I pressed into completing a Doctor of Ministry at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. – Rowan Williams, “Beyond Goodness: Gilead and the Discovery of the Connections of Grace,” 166-167. And in a fiction that works with and is inspired by Christian themes we are taken into the deepest connectedness of all in the light and in hope of which we live and pray for one another. įiction, if it’s doing its work, will always, I’ve suggested take us deeper into connectedness. But revelation tells us that healing is indeed the restoration of a broken nature, but precisely because our nature is broken, this healing must be more than “natural.”. The “good“ can so easily come to believe that healing is natural and simple. Without the wound, the openness, the crack that connects us to reality, to one another, and to God, healing doesn’t happen. Goodness, self-defined and self-contained, is something which will be poisonous if we’re not careful. Johnson (InterVarsity Press, 2019).Īll that Gilead puts to us is the plain reminder goodness is not enough. Balm in Gilead: A Theological Dialogue with Marilynne Robinson, edited by Timothy Larsen and Keith L. ![]()
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