Pynchon as propaganda

[Paul Mackin]

So far, nothingness seems to mean a lack of God's grace.

Nothingness is the Christian 'Other.'

P.


On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 19:01, s~Z wrote: 
> >>>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."
>