Devotion as theology
I was excited to be introduced to this by way of an Oliver O’Donovan lecture in which he referenced Webster (and I’m new at all of this so I admit I hadn’t heard of him). I’m leaving this here just as a new category, or chapter in this long book I find myself writing bit by bit by blogging, into which I’ll pitch new ideas and reaffirm what I was already doing (and what Webster exhorts us to do): theology in a school of devotion.
“In this state of life, however, I remained some time, uncertain what measures to take, and what course of life to lead. An irresistible reluctance continued to going home; and as I stayed away a while, the remembrance of the distress I had been in wore off, and as that abated, the little motion I had in my desires to return wore off with it, till at last I quite laid aside the thoughts of it, and looked out for a voyage.” The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe