Passion Of The Western Mind (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
Indeed, on first impression one might discern two entirely distinct world views that coexisted and overlapped within Christianity, and that were in continual tension with each other: whereas the one outlook was rapturously optimistic and all-embracing, its complement was sternly judgmental, restrictive, and prone to a dualistic pessimism. But in fact the two outlooks were inextricably united, two sides of the same coin, light and shadow. For the Church contained both perspectives, and at its essence was their effective point of intersection. Both views were enunciated in the Bible, in both New and Old Testaments, and both found simultaneous expression, in varying ratios, in all the major theologians, councils, and doctrinal syntheses of the Church. Yet it will be useful for us to distinguish the two perspectives and define them separately, thereby clarifying some of the complexities and paradoxes of the Christian vision. Let us attempt first to describe this internal dichotomy, and then to understand how the Church endeavored to resolve it.
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