“My subjectively experienced boredom may become infinitely projected toward the whole cosmos, as if everything were objectively meaningless. . . . The hell of human consciousness in time may be summarized as a boring present, an anxious future, and a guilty past. . . .
It is this predicament to which Christianity brings good news. Layer upon layer, as the self falls into sin and death and anxiety and guilt and boredom, the gospel of God reaches out to rescue the self from fallenness.”
Thomas C. Oden, Two Worlds: Notes on the Death of Modernity in America & Russia (Downers Grove, 1992), pages 103-104.
HT: Ray Ortlund