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the vertiginous sensation of possessing Jesus's power

in order to deliver this baleful, Kierkegaardian news

the formal term for the attempt to reconcile the suffering and meaninglessness of life with the notion of a providential, benign and powerful deity. Theodicy is a project at times ingenious, bleak, necessary, magnificent and platitudinous.

Fulsome explainers like George Eliot

the elimination of those vulgar spoors of presence whereby authors communicate themselves to readers