And now the case is yet to be made again for the narrative of emancipation and covenant wrought by an Agent who looks suspect according to the way of the world. The context in which that advocacy is to be made is one in which the dominant narrative is failing before our eyes. The inability of our strong military to have its way in the world, the inability of our strong economy to maintain its strength, perhaps the Gulf oil spill as an icon of a failed narrative of technological self-sufficiency, all together produce an endless round of anxiety that the world guaranteed by that dominant
...more
