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<p>This paper addresses two related question to Sophie-Grace Chappell’s exposition of the role of ‘epiphany’ in moral discourse. What do we make of epiphanic experience that does not prompt positive action but creates a&#xa0;sense of alienation or despair about the everyday? What are the cultural resources that can be deployed to sustain, question and enrich a&#xa0;moral vision that accommodates epiphanic insight? St Augustine and T.S.&#xa0;Eliot are discussed as offering some ways of tackling the first question, and the second is considered in the light of various ways of integrating epiphanic vision into a&#xa0;continuous individual and social ‘imaginary’, religious and otherwise.</p>

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‘… Stretching before and after’: epiphany, context and consequence

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    2026年3月17日

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  • Rowan Williams

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This paper addresses two related question to Sophie-Grace Chappell’s exposition of the role of ‘epiphany’ in moral discourse. What do we make of epiphanic experience that does not prompt positive action but creates a sense of alienation or despair about the everyday? What are the cultural resources that can be deployed to sustain, question and enrich a moral vision that accommodates epiphanic insight? St Augustine and T.S. Eliot are discussed as offering some ways of tackling the first question, and the second is considered in the light of various ways of integrating epiphanic vision into a continuous individual and social ‘imaginary’, religious and otherwise.