The Path Before Us, with Matthew Lee Anderson

The Path Before Us, with Matthew Lee Anderson

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#566: Desires and Persons

#566: Desires and Persons

How we imagine ourselves matters for change.

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Matthew Lee Anderson
Apr 10, 2024
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In my long (mostly neglected) essay on TikTok and Augustine, I took up a question that I think is among the most difficult in moral theology: how can we transform our desires, when desires are inherently self-reinforcing and self-perpetuating? The great crisis of Romans 7 is one in which the knowledge of the good comes apart from the desire for that goo…

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