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concluding remarks on François Raffoul’s The Origins of Responsibility

I finished reading The Origins of Responsibility by François Raffoul earlier this week. There are definitely quite a few take aways for me. The biggest which I mentioned in a previous post, is the correlation between how we conceive of being and how we then conceive of ethics, and vice a versa. It is interesting [...]

the gift: christ & derrida (part 2)

{After a spark of comments on the previous post, I have been asked to clarify Derrida and the gift.} …. Let me say firstly that i really don’t understand most of what Derrida is doing, when I think I am following his thoughts he very quickly muddies the waters. This is probably highly intentional on [...]

the gift: christ & derrida

One question which has been circling in my head lately is the possibility of a universal salvation, in the sense that Christ really did die for everyone and through that every has been/will be justified before God now and also on that future judgment. What has spurred this conversation with myself is reading Romans 5. [...]