predestination & the preterite [Re: MDMD(3)--Just a thought]

[Jules Siegel]

At 02:33 PM 07/9/97 -0700, Paul Mackin <mackin at allware.com> wrote:
>When I said it was ODD about Augustine tending toward
>double predestination, I meant odd only in the sense that
>he is so prominent in Catholic thought (a Father of the Church) 
>and yet I had just got done saying that Catholics tend
>toward the milder version of predestination, as Vaska
>goes on to elaborate.

I would be interested in seeing further discussion of the relationship
between Calvinism and class structure, as well as its role in the history of
industrialism. In reading Elaine Pagels' book on the Gnostics, I see many
points that indicate that the Gnostics were driven out of mainline
Christianity by people who acted more like businessmen or political leaders
than religious figures.

Does Pynchon see I. G. Farben, et al, as the inheritors of the Christianity
as business?


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