Jake Meador, on how various responses to the difficulties of life, whether it be to urge therapy on the left or to encourage weight lifting on the right, are really technocratic and, thus, utopian at base:

There is an assumption, usually left unspoken, that suggests to us that salvation from our problems is possible, and that it is within our own hands—or it could be anyway. Yet this hope is not Christian hope; you might call it a Promethean hope, I suppose, or a Pelagian hope. But whatever it is, it is something less than Christian. For Christianity tells us that our greatest need and longing is to know God and that we do this through responding to His word, through receiving the sacraments, through seeking friendship and counsel and aid in the community of believers. Both therapy and fitness regimens can belong to that final category, of course, but that does not negate or eliminate our need to hear God’s Word and respond in faith, coming to his Table to be fed and nourished.

I’ve had inchoate thoughts in this direction for some time — glad that Jake’s given some useful vocabulary to those intuitions.