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only have a few minutes (again---this three-dimensional life thing is getting on my nerves) so this will be as much a bump as a response....
martin: i dont prefer "orthodoxy" or belief to historicizing at all--quite the contrary. what i was pointing to is that if you believe, you view certain relations as absolute, and the boundaries that shape the space within which you believe as natural--you could look at the same features in historical terms and see them as the result of power relations/conflicts--from which it follows that it would be difficult if not impossible to naturalize them (treat them as features of the world ordained by god, say.)
this is the main reason why kierkegaard was freaked out by hegel...kierkegaard's way of framing the question had to do with historicization introducing an element of distance that tends to undermine belief, which for him was about immediacy, a direct relation between the believer and god.
zen tom:
kierkegaard was a danish philosopher active in the 1830s-1840s--one of the more interesting and influential philosophers to take on from the inside problems of christianity.
max weber was a sociologist--his work on the sociology of religion was and is among the more interesting projects undertaken on the matter. pierre bourdieu is a french sociologist (he died a couple years ago) whose work on cultural power draws on weber in some basic ways.
ach....
i gotta go
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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