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To: the_conscience

The message that revelation is a trace is typical Levinas. You might find some passage which demeans the incarnation; to me these words are in another direction, confirming what St. Paul saw: “Christ in you, the hope of glory.” That is not to say you are God.


1,171 posted on 11/15/2007 6:15:02 AM PST by cornelis
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To: cornelis

I understand that Levinas is not claiming that each of us is God but Levinas’ concept of the trace can hardly be compared to Paul’s conception of Christ in us. Per the Levinas quote I offered, his conception of the trace relates back to imago Dei which is something quite different from the Spirit of the incarnated Christ in us.

The question is does a exclusive concern for the other any less oppressive than exclusivism per se? I think clearly it is not. It reduces all truth claims to essentially the same thing to whatever the prevailing interpretative framework may be. It repressively reject the otherness of an exclusivist. It essentially retracts upon itself. We see this exact phenomenon with the political Left.


1,172 posted on 11/15/2007 3:01:39 PM PST by the_conscience
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