… I read through old posts of mine and come across something I had forgotten I wrote. For example, I forgot that two years ago, in a post called The Clitoris and Corinthians, I said:
I suppose I reconcile the secular feminist ideal of autonomy and the Christian ideal of sacrificial loving in my own mind by suggesting that the former is a necessary precursor to the latter.
Rereading that this evening, it hits me that just maybe, there’s a book proposal in there somewhere. But is there the time to flesh it out?
A propos your previous post, why try to reconcile them at all? Wouldn’t that just be a pointless search for consistency? Then again, it may be tough to write a whole book about hobgoblins and small minds.
Consistency is a useful intellectual servant; to paraphrase my favorite poet, it is an “insufferable master.” I want to be able to make arguments that are compelling, and that requires consistency. But I also want to be free to embrace a contradiction or two…