> On Dec 29, 2016, at 12:52 PM, Helmut Raulien <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think, maybe the concept of Christ is (btw) an attempt to solve the > almightiness-paradoxon (Can God create a rock He cannot move), by introducing > Himself in the role of a person who is not almighty, even got killed by the > Romans. The cost of this solution is to give up the concept of identity in > favour of a concept of tri-identity or trinity: Quite Peircean 2000 years > ago. Tragically, later the "Christians" have blamed not the Romans, but the > Jews for this killing.
Yes but the move to the person of Jesus causes far more problems for the more Greek absolutist conception of God. The problems of the traditional theologies of the two natures seem much more difficult than what they had before. Of course the reason for the theology isn’t how well they solve philosophical problems. > Btw, I have read, that the story of Jesus is somehow a copy of the Egyptian > story of Isis, or was it Osiris. There are lots of patterns in religion and myth. The structuralists made hay with this at least through the middle of the 20th century. Some figures like Joseph Campbell continued to push it long after its theoretical underpinnings had become problematic. > Like the story about Luther has ocurred about 160 years ago in England: A Mr. > Wycliff did the same, pinned reformatory theses to a church door, translated > the Bible, and had an uprising of farmers in his wake, same as later Luther, > just plagiating all that, but with bigger effect due to pamphlet printing > possibility then, more dead farmers, and he was antisemitic, and I wonder why > he still well regarded. A few others mentioned Weber although I don’t think that’s necessarily correct. Certainly there’s a lot of people who think Weber completely wrong on the Protestant issue and that it’s one of these accidental correlations. Even if one gives Weber a bit more credit than many want to these days, there does seem a certain accidental component to it all tied up with what great powers happened to be ascendent the last 250 years. Would we view it the same way had Portugal, Spain and later France not screwed up their empires?
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