Christian Classics

The Call for Justice

“That is the condi-tion of historicity, re-volution, morals, ethi-cs, and progress. But justice is not the law. Justice is what gives us the impulse, the drive, or the movement to improve the law, that is, to deconstruct the law. Without a call for justice we would not have any interest in deconstructing the law. That […]

Articulate Alternative Images of Reality

“Prophetic imagi-nation describes the activity of prophets of social justice, their ‘capacity to generate, evoke, and articulate alternative images of reality that counter what hegemonic power and knowledge have declared to be impossi-ble’. Likewise, poetic imagination is not just important for expre-ssing personal experi-ence, but also critical for the well-being of society, and is closely […]

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 […]

Mutual Aid

“Don’t compete! – competition is always injurious to the species, and you have plenty of resources to avoid it!” That is the tendency of nature, not always realized in full, but always present. That is the watchword which comes to us from the bush, the forest, the river, the ocean. “Therefore combine – practise mutual […]

Theology as a Motor for Events

“Thus it is time to affirm once again, with due appreciation for historical contexts, that theological ideas matter, and that theology may be a motor for historical events, and not just driven by them. To think otherwise is an anachronistic ‘Alice in Wonderland’ view of the Reformation in which theology is only the linguistic cloak […]

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 […]