Simone Weil, “The Love of God and Affliction”

20th Century Thinkers, Responses to the Problem of Evil & the Problem of Pain

Simone Weil (1909–1943) was a French philosopher, mystic, and political activist. Her essay “The Love of God and Affliction” is in essence a meditation on the cross. The “affliction” of which Weil writes (malheur in French) is suffering characterized by doom, horror, and a sense of inescapability and powerlessness. This form of suffering, moreover, is often […]

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