re MDDM 35 Christ and History

[Terrance]

Thomas Eckhardt wrote:
> 
> Christ, Terrance has said, according to Catholic dogma is ahistorical.
> This may well be the case, and it is certainly the view of mystics like
> Meister Eckhart. Yet St. Augustine created the concept of linear time
> and laid the groundwork for the idea of a teleological process, i.e. for
> the postmodernist view of History which Eagleton satirizes.

Augustine is the Father of Catholic Mysticism. Also, some say, the first
Modern Man and the first Psychologist (see Harnack). 
Let me go to O' Donnell for Time: 



"Indeed, Christianity may be said to have invented history in the modern
sense of the term..." 

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/twayne/aug3.html


A is one of those men who makes most others look like dwarfs, as Newton
does. No other man has done more to construct and to authorize the
Church than A,  but he is
also the father of Catholic Mysticism. Yes! This man of iron dogma and
authority was a mystic. Although A thought man a corrupted being, a
depraved body of sin, he confesses that God and Man are kindred, are
meant for each other, and that Man has within him a  direct pathway to
the Living God. 

"Thou has made us for thyself and our hearts are  restless unless they
rest in Thee Oh Lord." 


After reading Mumford, I've always thought of the Benedictines (the myth
of their "inventing" the Clock and thus modern time and capitalism
simultaneously or having
stolen both from both the Egyptians and the Chinese, hard working order,
they beat the Jezzy Wits to it) as having constructed modern Times and
Dickens of course.