THE STRUCTURES OF INTERPERSONAL ALIENATION

The Structure of Awareness, 1969, Thomas C. Oden

Although the experience of seeing our gods collapse is a painful one, it is nevertheless a potentially liberating one. As life or time or history (which is to say God) teaches us of the vulerability of all finite, created, human, and historical relationships, it intends to make us free from overdependence upon the neighbor above.