grgr: overcoming of metaphysics

[Paul Mackin]

Another example (possibly) of this UNreadiness-to-hand and breaking down
idea is the development of Christian doctrine though philosophical
(Platonic or Aristotilian) thought. Orthodox Christianity is very much
of an idealized, intellectualized affair, whereas one can at least
conceive of  an "original" Christianity as a simple matter of going around
loving your neighbor as yourself. Something as simple and ready-to hand as
the proverbial hammer. But this was not to be. The challenge of Gnosticism
was much like a breakdown. Philosophy had to be called in to rationalize
and intellectualize and shore up the structure.

I read something like this somewhere but don't remember where. Could be
completely wrong.

			P.