The Fall of Wisdom

rethinking time, evil, sin, and freedom

Pieter Bruegel The Fall of the Rebel Angels 1562

In 2019, I gave a lecture, “The Fall of Wisdom,” which was my first serious attempt at articulating an “antitheology” of evil—a term borrowed from Rowan Williams’ description of Julian of Norwich’s writings). In the lecture, I argued the following nine theses:

1. We cannot speak of evil.

2. Evil asserts itself ri…