The Mystery of Evil Quotes

“When the eschatological element disappears into the shadows, the worldly economy becomes properly infinite, which is to say, interminable and aimless. The paradox of the Church is that, from the eschatological point of view, it must renounce the world, but it cannot do this because, from the point of view of the economy, it is of the world, which it cannot renounce without renouncing itself. But this is exactly where the decisive crisis is situated: because courage—and this seems to us to be the ultimate sense of Benedict XVI’s message—is nothing but the capacity to keep oneself connected with one’s own end.”
― Giorgio Agamben, The Mystery of Evil: Benedict XVI and the End of Days