A Coragem de Ser

A vida é mesmo caprichosa. Recomendado através de  Denial of Death de Ernest Becker - que livro! -  chego a The Courage to Be de Paul Tillich. Lembro-me de que no passado quando cursava Filosofia - lá se vão 40 anos! -  o professor de Antropologia, Pe. João Quaini - um intelectual, homem sofrido como eu -  citava muito esse livro e o recomendava. Eu quis muito tê-lo lido, mas cadê os meios? - na época a dureza era muita! Agora, burguês, chego a ele através de uma reedição eletrônica  feita no ano 2000, sob o patrocínio da Yale University Press,  The Terry Lecturer Series.

Da Introdução escrita por Peter Gomez:
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The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God is disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.
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Genuine belief is maintained in spite of circunstances that would undermine belief and not simply because of circunstances that would confirm it. It does not take a great deal of imagination or courage to believe that God is on your side when you are prospering or winning; it takes a great deal of courage and imagination to believe that God is in your side when you are suffering and losing. To believe in love in the face of hatred, life in the face of death, day in the dark of night, good in the face of evil - to some, all of these may seem to be hopelessly naive, wishful thinking, whistling in the dark ( a decidedly non-Tillichian phrase); but, to Tillich, all of these are manifestation of enormous courage, the courage of confidence in more than sovereignity of fact and appearance. Providence, he argues, is not a theory about some activities of God; it is the religious symbol of the courage of confidence with respect to fate and death. For the courage of confidence says in spite of even to death. This is the echo of Job, who, in the midst of his dung hill and despair, gives in to neither, and proclaims: Though He slay me, yet will I praise Him (Job 13;15)