File spoon-archives/foucault.archive/foucault_1999/foucault.9903, message 174


From: henry sholar <hwsholar-AT-uncg.edu>
Subject: Re: Merit and paradise for protestants
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 07:06:10 -0400




I think Vibeke Annette Sol|y 
has answered the question 
wonderfully thoroughly.
The key is indeed the 
development of Prot 
thought from Augustine.

There is an interesting 
philosophical lineage here too:

Plato to Augustine 
as Aristotle to Aquinas.

I think one can still see the vestiges of
these influences in the variant Xian notions
of the self (along foucauldian lines) in the
denominations.

kindest regards,
henry



On Mon, 29 Mar 1999 19:28:27 -0300 Anaspinoza 
<anaspinoza-AT-sinectis.com.ar> wrote:

> Henry, thank you very much for your answer. I find a contradiction in the
> rejection that Luther makes of the concept of merit and the conservation of
> paradise-heaven by protestantism. Paradise is the place were people with
> enough merits go (at least that is the position of catholicism). If Luther
> rejects merit, he should then reject  paradise.
> It is contradictory lo reject merit and to accept paradise. How can this be
> explained?
> 
> Ana Spinoza
> 

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