Activity

all these improbabilities have been neatly made sense of, have been made hermeneutically legible

The priests I knew practised self-abnegation but perfected a quiet dance of ego.

various dualisms, like Gnosticism and Manichaeism--wherein God is opposed by and does battle with a separate, satanic source of evil, or is rivalled by a false god, a demiurge

It is like peering into the crucible of theodicy

it followed the parataxis of the Hebrew narration