Not Pynchon but Nietzsche on grace.--Pynchonian grace?-- & On the Bible

[Ian Livingston]

"What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil." FN BG&E

As a young preacher's kid long ago in days of yore, I recall the NT
frequently referred to as teaching the "gospel of love."

On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 3:22 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Didja know that in* Beyond Good & Evil,* Nietzsche writes
> that the New Testament is 'the book of grace"? He cannot have meant
> God-infused, right?
>
> "The Old Testament is a touchstone of 'greatness' in writing and themes
> AND 'smallness'," Nietzsche wrote
>
> I am rereading this book because of some words I have read about it
> arguing against the excluded middle in moral assertions...for a
> 'morality'--or
> anti-morality-- beyond binaries. That Pynchon trope/theme.
>
> HENCE THE TITLE!, d'uh....
> (And I only now see that his remark about the Old Testament yokes together
> beyond simple binaries! Nice. )
>
> We need almost all the beyondness we can get, I'd say. One of N's famous
> aphorisms, directly giving the tile maybe,  dovetails, hell, echoes,
> a major Christian one: "What is done out of love happens beyond good &
> evil".
>
> Will Nietzsche & Pynchon merge at all here? We seem to know
> P has read N's* Birth of Tragedy* at least, some readers and scholars seem
> to show.
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