Notes on Estrangement: Decreation and Ekstasis

Simone Weil talks of “decreation” as a kind of divine renunciation. Decreation, she says, is not the same as destruction. The latter subtracts away to nothingness; the former lets “something created pass into the uncreated.” It is Weil’s way of explaining God’s apparent indifference to us. “It is God who in his love withdraws from […]