Jun 1, 2022·edited Jun 1, 2022Liked by Christopher B. Barnett
Thanks. Haven't watched either series, myself. The interiority/exteriority question has so many facets. Isn't it true to say that for SK, there is a kind of "spurious" interiority as well, right? Variously identified or classified as reflection without action (in Present Age), double-mindedness (in Purity of Heart), and a possessive and acquisitive temporal love (Works of Love), and we do have, in SK, an affirmation in each case of a life of "exteriority" that is redeemed on the other side of the eternal's encounter with inwardness (action informed from character, the purity of heart that wills one thing in truth, the love formed through the command to love the neighbor, etc.). I just think it's so valuable to retrieve all of that from the devotional writings to counter any narrative about SK that it's all about inwardness, introspection, etc.
Thanks. Haven't watched either series, myself. The interiority/exteriority question has so many facets. Isn't it true to say that for SK, there is a kind of "spurious" interiority as well, right? Variously identified or classified as reflection without action (in Present Age), double-mindedness (in Purity of Heart), and a possessive and acquisitive temporal love (Works of Love), and we do have, in SK, an affirmation in each case of a life of "exteriority" that is redeemed on the other side of the eternal's encounter with inwardness (action informed from character, the purity of heart that wills one thing in truth, the love formed through the command to love the neighbor, etc.). I just think it's so valuable to retrieve all of that from the devotional writings to counter any narrative about SK that it's all about inwardness, introspection, etc.