Demons: Real but Impersonal – Gordon Savage

From the days of the church fathers, who identified demons with unruly human passions, to the modern recovery movement, which speaks metaphorically of ‘wrestling with our demons,’ a tradition exists that describes ‘demons’ as real but impersonal. Theologians and...

Simone Weil’s Statement of Human Obligation (1943)

Draft for a Statement of Human ObligationProfession of FaithThere is a reality outside the world, that is to say, outside space and time, outside man's mental universe, outside any sphere whatsoever that is accessible to human faculties.Corresponding to this...