Kathryn Lawson

Of Ethics and God: To What Extent Is Simone Weil a Christian Thinker?

Simone Weil both embraces and fundamentally alters Christian doctrine to suit her own phenomenological experience of the world. Three major issues to consider in reading Weil as a ‘Christian thinker’ are divine Creation, Christ's Resurrection, and mysticism or the possibility of an embodied union with the divine. Thi...