Pynchon as propaganda
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keithsz at concentric.net
Sun Apr 6 18:01:14 CDT 2003
>>>Indeed. As yet, no-one has been able to come up with one Christian
theologian who uses the term "nothingness". Both Sartre and Heidegger do.<<<
#4: John Wesley
'When we have received any favour from God, we ought to retire, if not into
our closets, into our hearts, and say, "I come, Lord, to restore to Thee
what Thou hast given; and I freely relinquish it, to enter again into my own
nothingness. For what is the most perfect .creature in heaven or earth in
Thy presence, but a void capable of being filled with Thee and by Thee; as
the air which is void and dark is capable of being filled with the light of
the sun, who withdraws it every day to restore it the next, there being
nothing in the air that either appropriates this light or resists it? Oh,
give me the same facility of receiving and restoring Thy grace and good
works! I say, Thine; for I acknowledge the root from which they spring is in
Thee, and not in me."
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