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(Never mind the biblical causation of seduction, disobedience, and punishment!) These challenges, of course, necessitate tapping the creative impulse of the rational/a-rational human creator (as, for example, defined by Reinhold Niebuhr in The Irony of American History). Unfortunately, our culture entices one to function at a high level of surface activity, perhaps an economic, but certainly not a cultural expedient. It is our further challenge to surmount obstacles to ask fundamental questions.
Near the end of the book, the author states, “We will never be free unless we can see the past in terms of its positive and negative implications for the future. We will never be free unless we can step into that future no matter what the costs may be.”
This is a good book.
Richard Dale Sjoerdsma, PhD
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Singing
Kenosha, Wisconsin