Skip to content

Catastrophe and passivity

Cannon Dr Alan Billings in the homily slot on the BBC's morning news program suggests that crumbling banks and crumbling buildings are a good moment to hand trust over to God. For Voltaire, these were moments to retract that trust. More positively, for Rousseau, they are moments to understand that we are not a passive audience in the face of destruction.

Listen!

Tony Curzon Price

Tony Curzon Price

Tony Curzon Price was editor-in-chief of openDemocracy from 2007 to 2012.

All articles
Tags:

More from Tony Curzon Price

See all