The Lord of the Absurd
In 1964, Raymond Nogar, a Dominican scholar-priest and author of the highly regarded book The Wisdom of Evolution, set out on a ten-campus tour that took him to the Universities of Illinois, California, Stanford, North Carolina, Harvard, Michigan, and Notre Dame, among others. The Lord of the Absurd is a series of reflections about interaction with audiences, challenging modes of thinking, understanding the risk of unsettling ideas, and the deepening of the author's own convictions in the...
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In 1964, Raymond Nogar, a Dominican scholar-priest and author of the highly regarded book The Wisdom of Evolution, set out on a ten-campus tour that took him to the Universities of Illinois, California, Stanford, North Carolina, Harvard, Michigan, and Notre Dame, among others. The Lord of the Absurd is a series of reflections about interaction with audiences, challenging modes of thinking, understanding the risk of unsettling ideas, and the deepening of the author's own convictions in the very presentation of his lectures. The same evidence for human evolution that has led some to atheism and a view of existence itself as Absurd, the result of nothing more than chance, circumstance and complexity, leads Nogar to a deeper appreciation of the mystery of creation. He acknowledges that the human situation is filled with frivolity and fate, wonders and strangeness and happenings whose apparent meaninglessness poses a dilemma. But, for Nogar, it was exactly in that human situation that Christ presented himself. His life, death, and resurrection show him not as the Lord of cosmic order but as The Lord of the Absurd.
