Christian Classics

Divine Concrete Reality‍

“In his corporal reality in his transfigu-ration he is the world redeemed…. Through him transitory creation is lifted into the eternal existence of God, and God, now invulnerable, stands in the world, an eternally fresh start…. Early modernism manu-factured a dogma to the effect that Christianity was anti-corporal, that the body was the enemy of […]

Writer Dead

“For the written to be written, it must continue to “act” and to be legible even if what is called the author of the writing no longer answers for what he has written, for what he seems to have signed, whether he is provisionally absent, or if he is dead, or if in general he […]

Another Abraham

“I could conceive of another Abraham–to be sure, he would never get to be a pa-triarch or even an old-clothes dealer–, an Abraham who would be prepared to satisfy the demand for a sa-crifice immediately, with the promptness of a waiter, but would be unable to bring it off because he cannot get away, being […]

Abram to Abraham

“There would be perhaps yet another Abraham, not only he who received another name in his old age and, at ninety-nine, at the time of his circu-mcision, felt, by the blow of a letter, the letter H right in the middle of his name; not only he who, later, on Mount Moriah, was called twice […]

Abraham Intervenes

“Kierkegaard has a predilection for the biblical story of the sacrificing of Isaac. Thus, he describes the encounter with God as a subjectivity rising to the religious level: God above the ethical ord-er! His interpretation of this story can doubt-less be given a different orientation. Perhaps Abraham’s ear for hearing the voice that brought him […]

Abraham’s ethical Subjectivity

Levinas invokes this crucial episode as the root of Abraham’s ethi-cal subjectivity: Here, in Abraham, the precondition of any possible triumph of life over death is formu-lated. Death is power-less over the finite life that receives a meaning from an infinite respo-nsibility for the other, from a diacony consti-tuting the subjectivity of the subject, which […]

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