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1. Very good:D….have a good time in LONDON! byeeee

   

   Mary Wood Form 7z

   30 Mar 07 at 1:20 pm
2. It the easter holidays showin m8 yur fingy wateva it iz cya wen ya cum back Mr Jeewaaaaaa

   

   Mary Wood

   1 Apr 07 at 12:12 pm
3. Thank you for your Beck interview on the RC church and cosmopolitanism. It is interesting to see how these ideas are being played out in another area. Compared to Agamben and Zizek, though, Beck seems much more historically ignorant. He misses the distinction between Paul’s Universalism and the self-announced ownership of the Church by the Roman bishopric. If he’d looked at the Council of Whitby or any similar event in Bede he’d have found the difference. And of course he collapses the missionary project into Imperialism without thinking, and his statement that the church aided and blessed the slaughters of early Modernity is completely without citation. It was the Church in Germany that succeeded in overturning Hitler’s earliest Euthanasia programmes before the war. In short he doesn’t understand Otherness very well, the relationship between the nation state and Messianic time. He appears to be another academic who looks at the church, sees something he fancies but can’t take it on its own terms. As NT Wright shows; it is the physical Resurrection that is the basis for Christian social, political, and ecological action, not it’s structure. Beck is right in seeing a lack of energy, but this is where it could be rediscovered. Is Beck more rigorous in his books? If he is he might have something to offer the Church in return. But sincere thanks, I see what you mean when you say Beck helps to clarify the specific ambition that is lacking in Zizek.

   

   David Henningham

   17 Apr 07 at 12:10 pm

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