What if the parts of you that doubted, questioned, or even walked away weren’t signs of spiritual failure—but signs of something deeper trying to survive?
This piece is born from the intersection of theology and therapy, of David Bentley Hart’s Tradition and Apocalypse and the insights of attachment theory, trauma healing, and inner systems work. For those of us who grew up with rigid religion—where obedience was love and questioning was betrayal—Hart’s reimagining of tradition doesn’t just offer an intellectual shift. It offers a lifeline.
Here, we explore how tradition, when hardened, can mimic the wounds of disorganized attachment—and how a truly living tradition might actually help us heal them.
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