Dynamic fragility : an analysis of power and love -- Harmony and rupture : a theology of relational dependence -- Power's social omnipresence -- Power's social mechanics -- Ambiguous relations and intransigent dangers -- Vertigo and complicity : unraveling the complexities of social evil -- The namelessness of social evil -- Anonymity, authorship, and responsibility -- The enigmatic closeness of social evil -- Metaphors of permeation -- Desires, habits, and governance : a case study of performative vulnerabilities -- The power of desiring and social configuration -- The power of habituation and social configuration -- Fragile relations and the price of perfection -- Moral ambiguity and the search for social perfection -- The wisdom of sorrow and the ethic of humility -- Modern transformations of sin and salvation -- Deconstructing privileged discourses : the ambiguity of social achievements -- The rhetoric of glory : ancient dangers of ordering disorder -- The rhetoric of progress : modern dangers of ordering disorder