Thursday, March 5, 2009

Amor, ergo sum

Welcome to postmodernity, where even the 'I' at the centre, Descartes's last bastion, turns out to be an unreliable kaleidoscopic mirror. But with Paul there is a way through, not to a reconstruction of an arrogant modernist Self, but to a new way of being human, a way that is rooted, through baptism, in the Messiah, or more particularly in the love of the one God revealed in him. If anyone is in Christ - new creation! Not 'Cogito, ergo sum' but 'Amor, ergo sum': I am loved, therefore I am.

N.T. Wright

1 comment:

PopStar said...

thats pretty sweet.