Once these dichotomies are accepted, it does not matter, theologically speaking, whether one “accepts” the world, as in the case of the Western enthusiast of “secular Christianity,” or “rejects” it, as in the case of the “Super-Orthodox” prophet of apocalyptic doom. The optimistic positivism of the one, and the pessimistic negativism of the other are, in fact, two sides of the same coin. Both, by denying the world its natural “sacramentality” and radically opposing the “natural” to the “supernatural,” make the world grace-proof, and ultimately lead to secularism. And it is here, within this
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