The Resurrection of Christ as Eternal Return

"And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched." (Mark 9:43).

With "the body of Christ," Christianity has universalized its body. The appearance of the man-God in Jesus Christ refutes the dualism of body and spirit, "City of God" and the cities of men. All is flesh and flesh is divine, all is divine and the divine is embodied, and through the divine flesh of the One resides the Holy Spirit. The "Trinity" is the destroyer of worlds, what once found unity in its dualism is now shattered into an absolute union.

With "the body of Christ," Christianity has universalized its body. Yet, in the minds of men this body is too quick to "offend," and they are too quick to "cut it off." "The consequence is, unfortunately, not only the loss of an organ but the emasculation of a man's character...only the castrated man is a good man." (F. Nietzsche). First, perhaps the "emasculation," but now certainly the re-masculation. For a society constructed around the perspective of men cannot exist without men. Now the "castrated man" is not just the "good man," but he is the essential man through whose eyes all those who are not men are forced to the margins. These marginal not men are then threatened with social castration as the universal body prepares to "cut off" the parts which "offend thee."

With "the body of Christ," Christianity has universalized its body! Now the body must be repeatedly crucified in order to preserve our redemption...