The Necessity of Despair (December 7  2018)   

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

I am reckoned among those who go down to the pit; I have become like a man without strength,  Psalm 88:4  NASB Down to the pit – “Modern man’s greatest fault, Kierkegaard maintains, is his total self-reliance.  It is his nineteenth-century delusion that he has progressed beyond his ancestors.  This conceit derives from egotism.  There is but…

The Necessity of Despair

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

I am reckoned among those who go down to the pit; I have become like a man without strength,  Psalm 88:4  NASB Down to the pit– “Modern man’s greatest fault, Kierkegaard maintains, is his total self-reliance.  It is his nineteenth-century delusion that he has progressed beyond his ancestors.  This conceit derives from egotism.  There is but one…