Faith in the gift of eternal life, rather than being an otherworldly form of wish-fulfilment, is actually what allows us to embrace our mortal limits and find joy in the gratuity of creation.
Category: Stanley Cavell
Luther and Othello: Skepticism, Anfechtung, and “the Doubting Disease”
This is an essay I wrote for a Philosophy class on American philospher Stanley Cavell and the plays of Shakespeare. I don't like to post my academic essays on this blog, but this one is a particularly important piece for me. “You have as much laughter as you have faith.” Martin Luther Shakespeare’s play Othello … Continue reading Luther and Othello: Skepticism, Anfechtung, and “the Doubting Disease”

