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"The scandal of the New Testament—the fact that it backs what America calls the losers, that it thinks the dispossessed will inherit the kingdom of God before the respectable bourgeois—all of that has been replaced, particularly in the States, by an idolatrous version. I’m presently at a university campus where we proudly proclaim the slogan “God, Country, and Notre Dame.” I think they have to be told, and indeed I have told them, that God actually takes little interest in countries. Yahweh is presented in the Jewish Bible as stateless and nationless. He can’t be used as a totem or fetish in that way."
"Problemet er at ideologi i dag framstår som ikke-ideologi. Det alt handler om, er å avdekke ideologien vi alle tilhører, og som vi alle er del av og underbygger med våre handlinger, uttalte han."
"The politics of Christian discipleship is about first unmasking the theolgical and metaphysical sources of current mythologies and revealing the distortions and perversions of their current secularized forms. Then we need to reread and rewrite the Christian tradition back into contemporary culture."
- Ur Politics of Discipleship. s.165
" ... although 82 percent of humankind espouses religious convictions, anthropology and psychology, following in the wake of Enlightenment sociology, can view such people only as immature, primitive, irrational, neurotic, or insecure.
For these social sciences, religion can be understood only negatively in terms of human progress toward some flatline of secularization - some enlightenment utopia in which all human beings are mature, civilized, rational, psychologically stable, and emotionally secure and recognize that their need for religion is a pathological or existential condition.
The assumption is that such sociologists, anthropologists and psychologists themselves are free from such immaturities, irrationalities, and emotional instabilities."
Graham Ward. The Politics of Discipleship. s.122
"Historien har, när allt kommer omkring, visat att visioner som vet att de kommer någonstans ifrån tenderar att ha bättre insikt om att de är på väg någonstans och inte vart som helst. Sådana visioner tenderar också i mindre grad att förgripa sig på den som till äventyrs inte delar den aktuella visionen."Med andra ord, vad som saknas i Žižek läsning av Paulus (om Svenungsson tolkar Žižek rätt) är insikten om att universaliteten springer ur det partikulära, eller som det uttrycks i en bok jag just nu läser:
”… to then assert that all speaking of God is limited to its historical and social location ... is to deny the incarnation; for it also states that the eternal is found in the historical, the infinite in the finite.”... eller med Hans Urs von Balthasars ord: Kunskap om det generella måste tolkas i ljuset av det partikulära.
Stephen D Long, Speaking of God. Theology, Language and Truth. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2009). s.14