Renovatio: Suffering as Surrender

In the Vol. 4, No. 1 issue of Renovatio, our writers — from Muslim theologians, to Christian philosophers (past and present), to liberal artists — seek to explore and understand the link between suffering and submission to the reality of God’s existence.   Table of Contents A Dangerous Schooling  Only when a person suffers and wills to learn from what he suffers does he come to know something about himself and about his relationship to God. Søren Kierkegaard   On Migrating To Lands of Melancholy Those who migrate for worldly gain are likely to be miserably assimilated and crushed, while those whose intention is noble, who are willing to see and understand and heal, can serve a redemptive purpose. Abdal Hakim Murad   King Lear and the Beatitudes Does the eternal horizon of reward help us more fully understand Lear's suffering and subsequent transformation in Shakespeare's tragedy? Scott F. Crider   How to Climb The Seven - Story Mountain Classics by Marcus Aurelius and Farid al-Din Att