[lbo-talk] creepy journal

C. G. Estabrook galliher at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu
Thu Jul 31 06:59:38 PDT 2003


In the sense that, when the word "world" [kosmos] appears in the library of Christian foundation documents ("New Testament") it usually means not the physical world but the political one -- structures of domination and oppression. --CGE

On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Charles Brown wrote:


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> From: "C. G. Estabrook"
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> "To speak with vast and misleading generality, there is in the world at
> the moment a conflict between the dispossessed and the rich ... It seems
> to me that the first thing a christian will want to say about his moral
> position is that he belongs with this revolution. I say 'belongs with it'
> rather than 'belongs to it' because the christian revolution goes in and
> through this kind of revolution to something deeper, to the ultimate
> alienation of man which is sin and ultimate transformation which is death
> and resurrection ... The christian, then, cannot identify his christianity
> with participation in the revolution though he can certainly point to the
> absurdity of a christian not participating..."
> --Herbert McCabe OP, Law, Love and Language (1968), 164-170
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> ^^^^^
> CB: Is this a variation of the idea that Christians strive to be in the
> world but not of it ?
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