(urth) Silk corrupted?

[David Stockhoff]

These are 2 separate ideas: (1)

What is key here is that we are interpreting a work by a writer who
takes the position that Jesus was a unique historical figure, the sole
Theoanthropos and Redeemer, an event which will not and *can* not
be repeated. This is *Wolfe's* position, 

and 

(2)

to interpret his work in a way that violates this position is to do that
work a violence which I cannot condone.

_I_ do not _accept_ Wolfe's position. I _acknowledge_ Wolfe's position. This is my point. 

And it hardly does violence to anything except certain people's 
assumptions---which I reject _as assumptions_. Especially assumptions to 
be forced on the debate as though they were _facts_. Do you see the 
difference? ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Thu, 22 Jan 
2009 14:46:43 -0800 From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <danldo at gmail.com> 
Subject: Re: (urth) Silk corrupted? To: The Urth Mailing List 
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 
2:40 PM, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> wrote:

> > I concede, of course, that the Bible takes precedence as a literary work in
> > both stature and history, so Severian and Jesus can never really be
> > coequals. But please let's dispense with the notion---the assumption---that
> > there can only be a single Christ in all of human literature. It's an
> > indefensible position.
>   

Agreed. Writers are free to create as many Christs as they choose, and
to make them theoanthropoi, divine, etc.

What is key here is that we are interpreting a work by a writer who
takes the position that Jesus was a unique historical figure, the sole
Theoanthropos and Redeemer, an event which will not and *can* not
be repeated. This is *Wolfe's* position, and to interpret his work in
a way that violates this position is to do that work a violence which
I cannot condone.

-- Dan'l Danehy-Oakes, writer, trainer, bon vivant ----- 
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brought Thousand Island Dressing and a bottle of chili sauce. -- T. 
Pratchett ------------------------------



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