Pynchon as propaganda

[jbor]

on 7/4/03 3:54 AM, pynchonoid at pynchonoid at yahoo.com wrote:

> Apart from the arbitrary, whimsical assignment of
> Sartre as the source for "nothingness" here in
> Pynchon's text, jbor's quite wrong about "nothingness"
> and Christianity, too.  Christian cosmology includes
> many significant voids, perhaps none greater than that
> from which God creates the world;

So you're saying that the clergymen are talking to the soldiers about the
void from which God creates the world? In between talking about "death" and
"redemption"?! Just before they go off into battle?!

>  also very important
> (and topical, here in the run-up to Easter) is the
> negative space occupied by Christ from the time he
> gives up the ghost on the Cross and is resurrected on
> Easter Sunday.  

You mean the Entombment? Where is that referred to in Christian theology as
"nothingness"?

> Meister Eckart and other Christian
> mystics -- among many other theologians -- contemplate
> and comment upon the nothingness that lies beyond the
> limits of human perception and how it relates to the
> concept of God.

Is it ever called or conceived as "nothingness"? Please do cite.

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