[March 2001 journal entry]
In another of my twice-monthly 6:00 AM meetings with a young family physician in Nashville I first met in his third year of medical school, I had the following thoughts as we discussed what I proposed to be a deep tension experienced by physicians who express loyalty to a theological perspective that finds divine will in the essence of every human experience/event – e.g.,
- note the implications for such ‘God’ language in comments in the medical sphere about ‘correcting’ or ‘fixing’ or ‘intervening’ or . . . an illness/injury,
- note that this theological perspective builds on the pre-modern/Augustinian ‘perfection-fall-perfection’ theological paradigm,
- note the theological implications for such ‘God’ language in an action such as the British beheading Charles II,
- note the urgency to find new sources for spiritual nourishment once the deficiencies of this theological perspective are exposed.
