[New post] A Qualified Apology for Hopelessness

JMSmith posted: ""Rich as the English language is, one cannot mold it to the full expression of one's contempt for the politician." Albert Jay Nock, Journal of Forgotten Days (1948) A commenter questioned the lack of hope in my last post on displacement and replacement.  " The Orthosphere A Qualified Apology for Hopelessness JMSmith Jun 28 "Rich as the English language is, one cannot mold it to the full expression of one's contempt for the politician." Albert Jay Nock, Journal of Forgotten Days (1948) A commenter questioned the lack of hope in my last post on displacement and replacement.  Hope is a theological virtue, but the despair this hope opposes is a very particular despair.  The despair that theologically virtuous hope opposes is a premature conviction that one is damned, or an over-egged conviction that annihilation is the corollary of death.  The hope that is theologically virtuous dissents from these propositions, no matter how strong the evidence in their favor. Continue reading A Qualified Apology for Hopelessness Comment Like You can also reply to this email to leave a comment. Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from The Orthosphere. Change your email settings at manage subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: https://orthosphere.wordpress.com/2023/06/28/a-qualified-apology-for-hopelessness/

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