John Milbank skriver, i debatt med Hauerwas och Yoder:
"Shocking as it may seem, because God creates us as hybrid material-spiritual creatures, the church includes certain physical spaces that one may have physically to defend. This defence would be in the name of secular justice rather than some 'defence of the holy,' and yet without the space secured through justice the offer of the sacred cannot really be made. ... Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings expresses with genius just how the Christian strategy is double and paradoxical. Gandalf coordinates a military campaign while Frodo self-sacrificially seeks to destroy forever the idol of absolute power. Both tactics are cooperatively necessary, and yet Frodo's tactic is more than a tactic. It is rather at one with the ultimate goal itself which is of peace and the renunciation of power for its own sake."
http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2010/10/29/3051980.htm
Av Arne Rasmusson
Arne Rasmusson är professor i tros- och livsåskådningsvetenskap vid Göteborgs universitet och extraordinär professor i systematisk teologi vid Stellenboschs universitet i Sydafrika.
Arne Rasmusson is professor in systematic theology at Gothenburg University and Extraordinary Professor in Systematic theology at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa.
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