Sivin Kit's Garden

Ambiguity

"People are not caught between a generalized good or a generalized bad. They are caught in the bind of two quite specific goods and two quite specific bads -- or (perhaps more likely) among several options, none of which is good or bad."

"The homilectical plot must catch people in the depths of the awful discrepencies of their world -- social and personal. It is to these very discrepencies that the gospel of Jesus Christ is addresses." (p. 25, The Homilectical Plot)