File spoon-archives/heidegger.archive/heidegger_2003/heidegger.0305, message 87


Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 09:12:19 -0500
From: allen scult <allen.scult-AT-drake.edu>
Subject: Re: read da book


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>From: "Anthony Crifasi" <crifasi-AT-hotmail.com>
>To: <heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
>Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 1:42 PM
>Subject: Re: read da book
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>>  Get this straight Henk. I am not apologizing for the Christian Church as
>the
>>  social matrix of anti-Semitism. I am disputing Carroll's conclusion that
>(1)
>>  this is at the very "core" of Christianity up to now, and (2) his
>conclusion
>>  that this cannot be overcome by anything short of a full renunciation of
>the
>>  cross and Christ as messiah. That is why I cited what I cited above.
>>
>>  Anthony Crifasi
>
>
>Hmm, I see what you mean. The Church is at the very
>"core" not anti-Semitic ...
>
>The few - recent - texts you refer to prove it -
>they are a fact.
>Almost twenty centuries of anti-Semitism in
>practice are history - and no longer facts?
>
>I understand that the renunciation of the cross
>and Christ as messiah is impossible for the
>Church.
>
>Perhaps it would help if this is seen as a sign of
>weakness, not of strength.
>
>Henk
>

Henk et., al.,

There's another relevant text here, I think.  It's called VIOLENCE 
AND THE SACRED by Rosmary
Reuther.  I don't remember the detailed ins and outs of her thesis, 
but the historical indications are clear:
A reconstitution of the sacred in a "new body," requires the blood 
sacrifice of an embodied enemy of the
newly reconstituted sacred.  Ancient Israel had to have Egypt.  The 
First Christians, the Jews.  While
those who are able to think the sacred in primarily symbolic terms 
can perform the sacrifice symbolically and thereby effect a 
relatively peaceful transition of sacred power, the fact
that truth and power are so easily aligned make it inevitable that 
such transformations of the sacred
are, and always remain violent.

Nietzsche and Foucault think this connection more subtly, but the 
"fact" remains; as, of course,
does the question.

Regards,

Allen

-- 
  Allen Scult					Dept. of Philosophy
HOMEPAGE: " Heidegger on Rhetoric and Hermeneutics":	Drake University
http://www.multimedia2.drake.edu/s/scult/scult.html	Des Moines, Iowa 50311
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