Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 09:12:19 -0500 From: allen scult <allen.scult-AT-drake.edu> Subject: Re: read da book >----- Original Message ----- >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 > > > >> 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 PHONE: 515 271 2869 FAX: 515 271 3826 --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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