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A review by jnzllwgr
Hell: In Search of a Christian Ecology by Timothy Morton
5.0
“Why be bleak when you can be Blake?” — Jhonn Balance
“Earth is a canon of love / Shame be on Socrates” — Julian Cope
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Wow. Where to begin. Well, I can’t sell this in a quick blurb, but I *want* to. I think everyone needs to be just as exploded by this book. I cannot pretend to understand everything that Morton is stitching together here, but I have a feeling or sense of it all. The grace and mercy that permeates the message is a critical component. Oscillating between a philosophical argument and personal experience, the very structure of the book reflects the entanglement that has led Morton to a Christian understanding (the caveat here that most Christians might struggle with this as much as everyone else) — it feels cyclical-y, stream-of-consciousness-y, treastis-y. Sometimes all mashed together. Morton remarks frequently in interviews that he considers his writings “self-help from future Tim”. That might be the best way to describe what you may experience in reading this — you may start to understand it in several years’ time. Read this if you are interested or concerned about global warming, the polarized political situation and fascism, interspecies symbiosis, Milton and Blake.
“Earth is a canon of love / Shame be on Socrates” — Julian Cope
.
Wow. Where to begin. Well, I can’t sell this in a quick blurb, but I *want* to. I think everyone needs to be just as exploded by this book. I cannot pretend to understand everything that Morton is stitching together here, but I have a feeling or sense of it all. The grace and mercy that permeates the message is a critical component. Oscillating between a philosophical argument and personal experience, the very structure of the book reflects the entanglement that has led Morton to a Christian understanding (the caveat here that most Christians might struggle with this as much as everyone else) — it feels cyclical-y, stream-of-consciousness-y, treastis-y. Sometimes all mashed together. Morton remarks frequently in interviews that he considers his writings “self-help from future Tim”. That might be the best way to describe what you may experience in reading this — you may start to understand it in several years’ time. Read this if you are interested or concerned about global warming, the polarized political situation and fascism, interspecies symbiosis, Milton and Blake.