The Hebrew-Christian universe is one in which moral urgency, the anxiety to be right, embraces and penetrates everything.  God, the Absolute itself, is good as against bad, and thus to be immoral or in the wrong is to feel oneself an outcast not merely from human society but also from existence itself, from the root and ground of life.  To be in the wrong therefore arouses a metaphysical anxiety and sense of guilt - a state of eternal damnation - utterly disproportionate to the crime.

• anxiety
• christianity
• guilt
• society
• god
• life
• existence
• crime
• damnation