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All human paternity comes internally structured by fratricide and, as paternity, is incapable of truth, because it will always be protecting itself against the 'other'.

— James Alison Faith Beyond Resentment: Fragments Catholic and Gay (2001)

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The 'I', the 'self' of the child of God, is born in the midst of the ruins of repented idolatry.

Faith Beyond Resentment: Fragments Catholic and Gay (2001)

Sin is resistance, in the name of God, to the creative work of God which seeks to include us all.

Faith Beyond Resentment: Fragments Catholic and Gay (2001)

Sin ceases to be a defect which excludes, and comes to be participation in the mechanism of exclusion.

Faith Beyond Resentment: Fragments Catholic and Gay (2001)

God has not the slightest difficulty in bringing to a fullness of creation the person who is in some way incomplete and recognises this. The problem is with those who think that they are complete, and that creation is, at least in their case, finished.

Faith Beyond Resentment: Fragments Catholic and Gay (2001)

There is no wicked and numinous paternal 'they'. There are only brothers and sisters like ourselves: fragile receivers and mete-ers out of ambivalent and often fratricidal fraternity.

Faith Beyond Resentment: Fragments Catholic and Gay (2001)

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