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This submission belongs to the session TUE13. Tuesday 13th | 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM of the event Great Connections Gathering 2025
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11 May, 2025
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Anthony Guiseppi-ElieCitation
Jack Hardaway, Falling Apart with Style: a Theological Reflection on Entropy, in Proceedings of Great Connections Gathering 2025, Blackrock, Tobago, 11 May–15 May 2025, MDPI: Basel, Switzerland
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Falling Apart with Style: a Theological Reflection on Entropy
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Jack Hardaway 1,2
1. Episcopal Priest, USA
2. Grace Episcopal Church, Anderson, SC 29621 USA
Abstract
Faith is often portrayed as a state of continual growth and improvement, neglecting the human experience of decline, suffering and disappointment. Faith, perhaps, is better understood at its deepest as falling apart with style, a certain humor and humility as life's multiple collisions pile up upon us.
Keywords
entropy
faith
style
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