Humanity: The Fallible Amphibian
- ISBN-10
- 1532670281
- ISBN-13
- 9781532670282
- Series
- Humanity
- Category
- Poetry
- Pages
- 168
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019-01-16
- Publisher
- Wipf and Stock Publishers
- Author
- Ken Bazyn
Description
How can one do justice to the heights and depths of the human condition, its mind-boggling accomplishments, its horrid corruptions? Christian tradition, in its wisdom, has acknowledged both extremes. We are fallible amphibians, composed of matter and spirit, yet capable of intense communication with God. Bazyn poetically expands on, and dissects, the conundrums. Frustrations dog our every step, and cravings overthrow us repeatedly. Why are we so prone to duplicity, to prejudice? What causes us to explode in anger, retreat into superficiality, see only the short-term? Why do we mistreat and ridicule others (e.g., the poor, minorities, women)? Free will itself can create saints or antiheroes. Rich in vocabulary, dense in allusions, far-ranging in insight, at times aphoristic in style, these poems are the outpourings of anguished authenticity. What message is our town bell pealing today? Why are there flaws beneath the smoothest of surfaces? How is it that we so often follow a zigzag course? If revelation comes, it may blind us or shine but a dim, shadowy half-light. Bazyn's spontaneous, undoctored black-and-white images clarify, and add nuance, to each vital topic. As Augustine forthrightly acknowledged in Confessions: “I have become a puzzle to myself.”
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2019-09-03
- 24 pages
- Paperback
- Racehorse for Young Readers
Similar books
-
Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
By Jonathan GloverThis important book confronts the brutal history of the 20th century to unravel the psychological mystery of why so many atrocities occurred--the Holocaust, Hiroshima, the Gulag, Cambodia, Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and others--and how we can ...
-
Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
By Abhijit Naskar" Abhijit Naskar is not a name, it is a force of oneness. And "Handcrafted Humanity" is a manifestation of that force in the form of a hundred sonnets, as treatment for the blunders of our world caused by self-centricity and sectarianism.
-
Rethinking the Value of Humanity
By Sarah Buss, Nandi Theunissen... Humanity belongs to a different sphere, namely to the domain of ends rather than the domain of mere means whose significance is exhausted by their usefulness. The distinction between mere price and dignity is one among existing things ...
-
The Religion of Humanity
By Octavius Brooks FrothinghamThe Religion of Humanity
-
The Invention of Humanity
By Siep StuurmanDrawing on global thinkers, Siep Stuurman traces ideas of equality and difference across continents and civilizations, from antiquity to present-day debates about human rights and the “clash of civilizations.”
-
The Humanity of Man
By Edmond BarbotinThe Humanity of Man
-
A Common Humanity: Thinking about Love and Truth and Justice
By Raimond GaitaThis profound and arresting book draws on a wealth of examples to paint a provocative new picture of our common humanity.
-
The Value of Humanity in Kant's Moral Theory
By Richard DeanRichard Dean offers the most sustained and systematic examination of the humanity formulation to date.
-
The Christian Vision of Humanity: Basic Christian Anthropology
By John Randall SachsIts key elements are found in the inviolable dignity of every person, the essential centrality of community, and the significance of human action. These are the main themes of a Christian anthropology developed in this book. "
-
Christ in our Place: The Humanity of God in Christ for the Reconciliation of the World: Essays presented to James...
By Trevor Hart, Dan ThimellFrom beginning to end, however, the Incarnation of the Word or Son of God took the form of a vicarious intervention in our poverty-stricken human existence in which Jesus Christ took our place in atoning exchange, making our lost ...