Thank you for the prospect of a robust exchange. Clearly, the biblical mandate is to look to the welfare of the city, whether Jerusalem, Rome, Babylon, even Sodom. But we must also hear the reckoning: "for here we have no lasting city." The great cities of the world are in states of "creative destruction," always being demolished, corrup…
Thank you for the prospect of a robust exchange. Clearly, the biblical mandate is to look to the welfare of the city, whether Jerusalem, Rome, Babylon, even Sodom. But we must also hear the reckoning: "for here we have no lasting city." The great cities of the world are in states of "creative destruction," always being demolished, corrupted, or reimagined. Human genius is mingled with greed and sloth. Sometimes we experience a decade something like a golden age, but much of the time we lament a debacle: the disappearance or despoiling of something we thought might last forever, No, human beings are not being perfected by their works.
Thank you for the prospect of a robust exchange. Clearly, the biblical mandate is to look to the welfare of the city, whether Jerusalem, Rome, Babylon, even Sodom. But we must also hear the reckoning: "for here we have no lasting city." The great cities of the world are in states of "creative destruction," always being demolished, corrupted, or reimagined. Human genius is mingled with greed and sloth. Sometimes we experience a decade something like a golden age, but much of the time we lament a debacle: the disappearance or despoiling of something we thought might last forever, No, human beings are not being perfected by their works.