Thursday, 24 November 2022

The Therapy of Memory (Peter Craigie)

Commenting on Ezekiel 6:8-10, Peter Craigie wrote,

In Ezekiel’s prophecy, the blunted stimuli of memory are to be revitalised in the experience of judgment. But the process of vital memory, however activated, is vital to any healthy spiritual life. What we have become may be to a large extent the consequence of our experience of life; what we may become depends in large part upon our memory and understanding of that experience. And not least important, as Ezekiel makes so clear, is that central in our memory must be the knowledge of the experience of God.

Craigie, P. C. (1983). Ezekiel (p. 48). Westminster John Knox Press.