Posts tagged "Robert Louis Stevenson"
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde and St. Paul
Books / Literature / Suffering

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde and St. Paul

by David Zahl on Nov 29, 2010 • 1 Comment

Two particularly stirring passages from Robert Louis Stevenson’s masterpiece (of Romans 7 anthropology):

“It was thus rather the exacting nature of my aspirations, than any particular degradation in my faults, that made me what I was, and with even a deeper trench than the majority of men, severed in me those provinces of good and ill which divide and compound man’s dual nature. In this case, I was driven to reflect deeply and inveterately on that hard law of life, which lies at the root of religion, and is one of the most plentiful springs of distress. Though so profound a…

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Good News For People With Big Problems #3 "Check Out Any Time You Like (But You Can Never Leave): Depression, Addiction and the Christian Hope"
Addiction / Film / Poetry / Psychology / Theology

Good News For People With Big Problems #3 "Check Out Any Time You Like (But You Can Never Leave): Depression, Addiction and the Christian Hope"

by Drake on Jul 23, 2009 • 11 Comments

Last night, we tackled Big Problem #3 (sub-title: The Bondage of the Will), our inability to bridge the gap between how we ought to live and how we actually live. A problem that is especially highlighted when dealing with depression and addiction. To do so, we looked at the following sources:

From Dorothy Martyn’s “Beyond Deserving”:

In speaking of the indestructibility of what lies in the unconscious mind, he spoke of “paths…laid down once and for all, which never fall into disuse” and “are only capable of annihilation in the same sense as the ghosts in the…

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