"Outside the Law"

Who chooses law over grace?

If i sit outside the law, perhaps this is my choice

Grace only thrives in the presence of love, compassion and hope

She lifts me over the fence

and sets me down beyond my limited horizons

and i choose to trust her purpose

(though i quake at times and hesitate!)

Having written this my journal-writing took a rather different turn!  Preparing for an Ethics exam dominates my thinking...

Kant reckoned duty was the answer, causing Aquinas to turn in his grave;
Luther raged and longed for freedom centuries before Bonhoeffer died to liberate Jews.
And Barth too was a political beast which reminds me of Milbank
with his Five Marks of the Beast and Fives Notes of Grace.
He's the baby of this eclectic bunch - younger than Sen, Hauerwas and Nussbaum,
younger even than O'Donovan and Cahill - but these living writers and thinkers owe much to the past
(though they don't always acknowledge their sources)
Nussbaum swoons over Aristotle, Hauerwas weaves threads with literature and oration,
Cahill wears badges of Catholic Social Thought and a watery brand of feminism
whilst Alasdair Macintyre belongs to the living tapestry, writing of virtue, desire and belonging.