Co-humanity as intrinsic reality
A friend sent me this, which fits:
To what degree will we not be able to divorce ourselves from our co-human, even when we shamefully offend against our co-humanity? To the degree, says Barth, that there is no such thing as the human in and for himself, but rather he always exists in the duality of male and female. This means that all the other distinctions between people are relativized by this "structural differentiation of human existence", which casts a new and helpful light on these distinctions. The fact that God created humanity as male and female is the "Magna Carta of humanity", for it shows that intrinsically, and not in consequence of an imperative, humanity is co-humanity, no matter whether we contradict or correspond to our nature.
Eberhard Busch, The Great Passion, p.196
posted by Jon Trott @ 2:51 PM
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An additional note, added after reading more Barth... alas, I'm not at all sure this guy was a friend to women. His own personal world seemed to take for granted at least two women (his wife, then his unheralded co-author who was also a paramour on one or more levels). His theology tries to offer some room to move away from male-centric paradigms, but really doesn't succeed. At least, that's how I -- not an expert but certainly a guy who's got a fairly sensitive "nose" for non-womanist thought -- sees it.
Jon Trott
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