re MDDM 35 Christ and History

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But doesn't this western notion of "History" and time leave out
the majority of our fair orb's history altogether, i.e., those
eons during which the stage was being prepared for what we 
like to think of as our staring (starring if yer in the audience) role,
before there were any audiences, critics, professional dancers, etc.?

If pressed, and given what we now know, I think Wicks would agree 
that history is the story of our hunt for dinner. Whether or not
there will be dessert, cigars, brandy what-have-you, now that
is indeed a sublime question, which itself begs for the time
required for adequate digestion, distillation, reflection.

[A whole whale for a bucket of amber gris?... "Let them eat cake."]


In a message dated Thu, 21 Feb 2002  2:07:27 AM Eastern Standard Time, Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> writes:
 
> Great passage, and very relevant indeed. "History is the Dance of our
> Hunt for Christ" is a strangely beautiful metaphor. "Dance" does not
> sound too linear, but at least it is a predetermined affair. A hunt may
> be perceived as a linear, even teleological affair - Ahab's hunt for
> Moby Dick certainly is. 
> 
> But does Cherrycoke believe in the factual veracity of the resurrection
> and thus see history as a linear and teleological process? This is the
> important question.