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The goodness we have reached is a house built on piles driven into black slime and always slipping down into it unless we are building day and night R.H. Tawney's Commonplace book (Cambridge University Press: 1972), 15

Jacobs on 'hermeneutics of suspicion:' Discernment is required to know what kind of gift one is being presented with, and in what spirit to accept it, (if at all), but a universal suspicion of gifts and givers, like an indiscriminate acceptance of all gifts, constitutes an abdication of discernment in favour of an a priorism that smothers the spirit. Alan Jacobs A Theology of Reading: The Hermeneutics of Love (Boulder: Westview, 2001), 24.