![]() Os here uses Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov to make a metaphor to the emptiness of life when there is no purpose. ![]() The first intersting in this chapter is the re-opening of the discussion on freedom that was started in the introduction on pg viii. "That is why calling provides the Archimedean point by which faith moves the world" (pg. The ultimate source to respond to is God, and he is most certainly outside the scope of our direct physical and temporal life. Os sums it up like this: " calling is the truth that God calls us to himself so decisively that everything we are, everything we do, and everything we have is invested with a special devotion and dynamism lived out as a response to his summons and service." (pg 4) Os seems to be of the mind that life can only find true meaning when it is lived as a response to something from outside of itself. The idea is that in order to ground our lives in a solid "why" only the call of God is strong enough. This chapter adresses the need for a why in life, the idea is that the vast majority of the persuits in our life do not actually adress the "why" of life.
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