Simone Weil and Gerard Manley Hopkins on God, Affliction, Necessity and Sacrifice

• Authors: John McDade
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Simone Weil's ideas on affliction and sacrifice have been interpreted by some as though they are the product of psychological problems. I will approach her writings on necessity and affliction through G. M. Hopkins' little prose masterpiece. Later I will suggest that she may be profitably related to some French spiritual writers in the 17th Century, who develop a link between the necessity of offering sacrifice to God and the radical contingency of created existence.

Keywords

EN

God; sacrifice; suffering; Weil, Simone; Hopkins, Gerard Manley

• Publisher: Akademia Ignatianum w Krakowie
• Journal: Forum Philosophicum
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 1-16

Dates

published

2008

Contributors

author

John McDade

• Heythrop College, University of London

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10.5840/forphil20081311

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