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Full Darkness: Original Sin, Moral Injury, and Wartime Violence is unavailable, but you can change that!

A theological treatment of war, trauma, and the fundamental character of human existence. In Full Darkness theologian and wartime veteran Brian Powers argues that the Augustinian concept of original sin can illuminate the nature of wartime violence, particularly through the lens of veteran trauma. He shows precisely how sin and war both cause human identity, agency, and hope to be lost. Powers...

in creation and to express one’s own life in loving community. I will argue further that this sequestered willing and suppressed spirit coalesce to produce two distinctive lasting wounds that are borne by many veterans: first, a memory laden with guilt, grief, horror, and sorrow that robs the present of positive meaning; second, a loss of hope, the inability to imagine a future that is unburdened and free. In the coda of this work, I will allude to the theme of the second part of this study (which
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