An Offering of Uncles: The Priesthood of Adam and the Shape of the World

abstract AUCTOR beard become beginning behold black Mass blame body build built Caiaphas Christ Christianity chronicle chronos clocks course courting creation death deus ex machina diagram doctrine eggs everything evil face fact failure forever forgiveness garden give God's goes gone grasp hint human insist invitation irrelevant Julian Bream kairos least leave LECTOR lifting living look Lord Lucretius man's marriage marsh reed Masaccio matter meaning metaphysical mind misshaping mutual oblation mystery mystique nature never oblation of things offered Omega Point PANTHEISM Passion person perversion physical play Port Jefferson precisely priesthood of Adam priestly agent problem Romantic love sacred secular sense shape simply somewhere T. S. Eliot talking tell theologians theology tion tissue triumph true uncles unhistorical walk weaving whole word wreck wrong history