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Idea and Flesh3/23/2006 13:20:17Is it a bad thing that I do not know what I am going to say until I have said it? I wonder if the Christian theological fixation with the Word is an accident of translation, somehow confused along the way with hebrew ???, "word, thing, affair." Daniel Boyarin argues for a close connection in origin between Christian and Jewish logos thology in Border Lines, or so he promises in the introduction, because I haven't read the whole thing yet. Still it is important that of course in John's Gospel the Word is projected onto the Genesis creation story, which is to say (I think) that substance did not precede essence but the two came into being together. The world came into being by the fact of its intelligibility. This crosses my mind a lot as I finish up my thesis, The Cosmogonic Theater: Public Performance in the Evolution Controversies and feel like, even onto the end, I am still making up ideas as I write them. The thing is only coming together as fast as I can build it with my bare hands. No planning exists: planning is le peche du presomption. Right planning is only what has been made, and is being assembled into new creations. This is a question I have wrestled with, bordering on the heresy of monism: is God what he is or what he has made? Intelligibility suggests, perhaps, that it is possible to separate what God is from what God has made. Certainly what Paul accomplishes through the language of "faith" in his letters is the establishment of a soul judged apart from what it has done. This serves as a definition of the soul, an assurance that a person exists. Then James comes to remind us in his epistle of straw that, even so, the soul comes to be itself through what it makes. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |
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