41 min
Ep. 0.2: Frankenstein Let There Be Lit
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- Christianity
“Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind, when it has once seized on it, like a lichen on the rock” (100).
The weight of knowledge and the power it wields--this is one of the main dilemmas Mary Shelley offers up in her monumental novel, Frankenstein. Who’s the real monster in this story? What are our obligations to create and be responsible for that creation? How do we practically submit every part of our lives to the finished work of the cross?
“Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind, when it has once seized on it, like a lichen on the rock” (100).
The weight of knowledge and the power it wields--this is one of the main dilemmas Mary Shelley offers up in her monumental novel, Frankenstein. Who’s the real monster in this story? What are our obligations to create and be responsible for that creation? How do we practically submit every part of our lives to the finished work of the cross?
41 min