The Emotionally Most Complete Cosmology
Christian culture is not always subdued or ascetic. It is often polychromatic, extravagant, and excessive. Saints and sinners mingle in a culture of piety and transgression, a culture that believes in forgiveness because it knows how much it needs it. Seasons of Lenten fasting cycle with seasons of sumptuous and sensuous feasting in a way that generates an emotionally replete cosmology.