Marcel Proust
From the Archives: Projecting Our Way Through Holy Week
The friendly overtures of a person whom we no longer love, overtures which strike us, […]
Personalizing Law and the Awkwardness of Kissing Albertine
Many pastors feel they’re losing credibility. A greater attention to the Law in human experience could help regain it.
Along with preaching the Gospel, which overwhelms and effaces our faults, there is still, in Luther’s thought at least, the need to preach God’s Law, which – in addition to making sense of the world around us – lets us know how we stand before God, which is always as those who are spiritually impoverished in themselves and in need of continual mercy. As grace comes into focus only when we know we have done wrong, so the Gospel comes into focus only when…
Marcel Proust on Self-Sabotaging Discipline
Someways into the Frenchman’s third volume, his masterful forays into the life of the mind […]
Marcel Proust on the Dogged Determination of the Will
“Whereas at the moment we are just about to start on a long-planned and eagerly […]
What We Want/What We Get: Imagination and Holy Week
The friendly overtures of a person whom we no longer love, overtures which strike us, […]
Grace In Everyday Life: Parents and Children; Law and Freedom
A young man’s mother refuses, then allows, him go to see a show with an […]
In Search of Lost Enchantment: Religious Reflections on Swann&# …
How do we remember things? At a fundamental level, sensory impressions from the past remain […]
In Search of Lost Time: Reflections on Memory and the First Christ …
Memory and imagination work to give us experiences outside of the present moment, whether through […]
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