I will always share the refrain from C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters; "Keep your patient focused on anything but two moments: his immediate present, and his eternal future. In the latter he will find the Enemy; in the former, he will find his path the to Enemy."
Paraphrasing, but that's the gist of the tale. Thank you Finrod!
One of the best parts from one of my favorite books!
Toynbee’s account illustrates how that same wisdom holds civilizationally as well. Human societies have been hitting the same walls time and again, and ultimately perishing in futile futurism or archaism, or committing suicide through detachment.
eh, here I started to thinking the essay was developing into something interesting and then it culminates in handwavy exclamations that will ring hollow to everyone other than Christians
I will always share the refrain from C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters; "Keep your patient focused on anything but two moments: his immediate present, and his eternal future. In the latter he will find the Enemy; in the former, he will find his path the to Enemy."
Paraphrasing, but that's the gist of the tale. Thank you Finrod!
One of the best parts from one of my favorite books!
Toynbee’s account illustrates how that same wisdom holds civilizationally as well. Human societies have been hitting the same walls time and again, and ultimately perishing in futile futurism or archaism, or committing suicide through detachment.
Only Jesus knows the way out of the tomb. :)
eh, here I started to thinking the essay was developing into something interesting and then it culminates in handwavy exclamations that will ring hollow to everyone other than Christians
But that's the answer Toynbee ultimately comes to. Christ is our way out of the cycle. I hope you too will become convinced one day!