"The Law cannot raise the dead---only Jesus can." Wise words! Thank you Jack for an insightful and stimulating essay on this subject. I would be curious if you think the "disordered loves" idea is a good one; and, if so, what sin you would say we commit when our loves are disordered. If not, then why not?
Jacob, that is a great question. I think it is helpful language, but it's only idolatry anagogically, a contextually helpful way to apply the sin of idolatry as it appears in the pages of Scripture to us, sometimes. I think false worship might be helpful, though I'm not positive that that phrase communicates what we mean either. It seems disordered loves is really just a description for any kind of sin, perhaps most fundamentally pride, the root of all sin, itself a disordering of goods.
"The Law cannot raise the dead---only Jesus can." Wise words! Thank you Jack for an insightful and stimulating essay on this subject. I would be curious if you think the "disordered loves" idea is a good one; and, if so, what sin you would say we commit when our loves are disordered. If not, then why not?
Jacob, that is a great question. I think it is helpful language, but it's only idolatry anagogically, a contextually helpful way to apply the sin of idolatry as it appears in the pages of Scripture to us, sometimes. I think false worship might be helpful, though I'm not positive that that phrase communicates what we mean either. It seems disordered loves is really just a description for any kind of sin, perhaps most fundamentally pride, the root of all sin, itself a disordering of goods.