This morning, I'm working more on my lesson for youth group tonight. We've been doing a series on Ezekiel, and to help me with preparing my lessons, I've been reading Robert Jenson's commentary on Ezekiel from the Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible series. I enjoyed a paragraph I just read in which Jenson comments on how Christians should view evil (especially the comment about Luther):
"Augustine said that evil is the darkness where being has run out; the shadow that lies over our lives is the gloom that deepens as the light dims. Karl Barth said that evil is what God eternally leaves behind him and that the shadow is the trace of his doing this. But perhaps the shadow's sheerly negative reality is best acknowledged and exorcized by doing what Martin Luther famously did, throwing things at it" (115).
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