There is much emphasis in our days on the concept of dialogue. Most people simply equate the word with discussion and more and more we hear about how the Church should dialogue with the world; but what is dialogue? For someone it means to put aside one’s identity, or rather one’s faith, in the name of a lowest common denominator or the quiet living, a symbol of a Church that compromises with the world watering down its doctrine. In this work I have committed myself to try to demonstrate that dialogue
A critical study has been carried out in the earlier chapters to explore Flannery O'Connor's fictional works with respect to the study of human relationships and the nuances of the truth-seeking concerns exemplifying interesting realities. The study recorded in this thesis illustrates that there is a repetition of retreat patterns in human relationships on the canvas of the familial, societal and spiritual altitudes. In O’Connor’s fiction, human relationships are understood to be perverted and strange
Woman: God’s second mistake? Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, who regarded ‘thirst for power’ as the sole driving force of all human actions, has many a one-liners to his credit. ‘Woman was God’s second mistake’, he declared. Unmindful of the reactionary scathing criticism and shrill abuses he invited for himself, especially from the ever-irritable feminist brigade. The fact and belief that God never ever commits a mistake, brings Nietzsche’s proclamation dashingly down into the dust bin