Rebecca Rozelle-Stone and Lucian Stone critically apply Simone Weil’s “negative-reflective” theology to attitudes of modernity by grappling with the obscurities in her text. They explore her theories of attention as negative effort, creative action in “decreation”, positive elements in affliction, essential ties between love and justice, plus her ambivalence toward Judaism. This presentation of her thought opens the reader to Simone Weil's conception of human life, as she believed it to be revealed in the Gospels. Extensive references to other major thinkers and personal insights into this French philosopher’s thought make this work a provocative and valuable contribution to Weil studies.