tvo7,
What David is saying has jarred my brain a bit. I think he is really onto something. I wanted to take an astronomy class my last semester in college, as I had all my core subjects met, but it filled up too quickly but we had a hot shot Prof trained at Harvard who taught existentialistic theology. Strange, but decided to take the course (1986)even though I was anything but theo-anything. We studied Buber, Kierkegaard, Tillich. I really enjoyed the course but things got filed away in the vault till I met a Lutheran in the late 90's, and wanting to understand more about Luther decided to read most of his teachings (that were translated from german to english) the raw stuff he was teaching his students at Wittenberg in the early 1500's. I think there are over 40 volumes, and I read most over a decade ago. But this idea of bondage of the will as Luther taught as well as having two opposing forces (sinner/ saint) present in an individual has subsequently intrigued me. What David is saying about pure Evil smacks of Lutherian thought, and I suspect Luther would argue the revulsion David feels towards this Evil may be the Good that drew him to this wonderful profession in the first place.
I also love Sarte and Camus--so its just not the theologians that have things to offer--
