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A Conversation with Richard Boothby | Part 1

Peter Rollins - The Archive

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The Unknown and the Other in Christianity

In the Gospels, you have this notion that if you want to be open to this dimension of the unknown, it's in the other and in the neighbor and even more in the enemy. And that somehow remaining open to that is what Hegel called tarrying with the negative. In modern society, we have this idea that no one needs to be castrated, achievement society, self-optimization, you can be whole and complete. There's something about lack and the void that marks us, but not, but there's no exceptions to that. As we identify with that, we kind of find freedom from the tyranny of happiness,. The tyranny of enjoyment, the tyranny of always attempting

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