re MDDM 35 Christ and History

[Samuel Moyer]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Eckhardt" <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>




>
> "History, as opposed to history with a small h, is for postmodernism a
> teleological affair. It depends, that is, on the belief that the world
> is moving purposefully towards some predetermined goal which is immanent
> within it even now, and which provides the dynamics of this inexorable
> unfurling. History has a logic of its own, and co-opts our own
> apparently free projects for its own inscrutable ends. There may be
> set-backs here and there, but generally speaking history is unilinear,
> progressive and deterministic."

> RC does not use the word "history" in this sense, even though he spells
> it with a capital H. For him history is "not a Chain of single Links"
> i.e. not "unilinear, progressive and deterministic". By this, of course,
> he nevertheless implies that there are people or institutions who
> perceive history as a chain of single links and not as a "great
> disorderly Tangle of Lines".

Rev C: p 75 (I think)

 History is the Dance of our Hunt for Christ, and how we have far'd.  If it
is undeniably so that he rose from the Dead, then the Event is taken into
History, and History is redeem'd from the service of Darkeness, - with all
the secular Consquences, flowing from that one Event, design'd and will'd to
occur.

Doesn't this imply, I am asking, that Rev C. believes history to be linear
and predetermined?

Sam