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Our Current Experience of the Via Negativa (REVIEW ESSAY)

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(13) Page 423: "Sins of the flesh take you toward God; sins of the spirit take you away from God."

For further discussion of this key theme, see Matthew Fox's 2016 revised edition of his book Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul and Society.

(14) Page 431: "It pertains to justice to reduce unequal things to an equality. When equality exists the work of justice is done. For that reason equality is the goal of justice and the starting point of friendship."

(15) Page 437: "Playfulness, or Fun, is a Virtue."

For further reading on this theme, see the 1967 American edition of the English translation of the German Jesuit theologian and church historian Hugo Rahner's book Man at Play, with a "Preface" by the American Jesuit Walter J. Ong (pages ix-xiv); his "Preface" is reprinted as "Preface to Man at Play" in An Ong Reader: Challenges for Further Inquiry (2002, pages 345-348).

(16) Page 479: "By nature all persons are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments."

For relevant related reading, check out what the Declaration of Independence says about liberty. For relevant related scholarly reading, also see John E. Coons' 1999 book with Patrick E. Brennan, By Nature Equal: The Anatomy of a Western Insight.

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Thomas James Farrell is professor emeritus of writing studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD). He started teaching at UMD in Fall 1987, and he retired from UMD at the end of May 2009. He was born in 1944. He holds three degrees from Saint Louis University (SLU): B.A. in English, 1966; M.A.(T) in English 1968; Ph.D.in higher education, 1974. On May 16, 1969, the editors of the SLU student newspaper named him Man of the Year, an honor customarily conferred on an administrator or a faculty member, not on a graduate student -- nor on a woman up to that time. He is the proud author of the book (more...)
 

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