There remains an experience of incomparable value ... to see the great events of world history from below; from the perspective of the outcast, the suspects, the maltreated, the powerless, the oppressed, the reviled -- in short, from the perspective of those who suffer ... to look with new eyes on matters great and small.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer,
Letters and Papers from Prison
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It's a gospel perspective...
yes indeed
it is a little strange (and at times disappointing) that this remains the treasure 'hidden' in a field.
But as Girard has said this perspective may be the leaven in modern social consciences that is making the gospel more realized even as it remains hidden.
and that is a tremendously encouraging thought
Thanks for pulling this thought out of Girard's someplace. It's a terribly important one. And one I need to live in.
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