The Forgetting of Christianity

What is Christianity? What is its sense? Is it a religion, a religion like all other religions? In joining a chorus of European philosophers who have returned to Paul or to Christianity, Jean-Luc Nancy retains the Latin word “religion” as the uninterrogated marker of Christianity and other “world re...

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Main Author: Gil Anidjar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pluto Journals 2015-09-01
Series:ReOrient
Online Access:https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169/reorient.1.1.0027
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Summary:What is Christianity? What is its sense? Is it a religion, a religion like all other religions? In joining a chorus of European philosophers who have returned to Paul or to Christianity, Jean-Luc Nancy retains the Latin word “religion” as the uninterrogated marker of Christianity and other “world religions.” Religion is thus the site of an ambiguous “sharing,” of which Christianity partakes perhaps more than others — but within which limits? Besides its deconstruction, has there been a critique of Christianity?
ISSN:2055-5601
2055-561X