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Harbored in the Event (of Unity) or, Inigo Montoya on Semiotics?

May 29, 2013 Todd Littleton Christ Following, Church, Featured, Intersections, Jesus, Theology

Who does not love Inigo Montoya? The accomplished swordsman possessed with avenging his father’s death at the hands of the six-fingered man often questions Vizinni’s use of inconceivable,

Vizzini: HE DIDN’T FALL? INCONCEIVABLE.

Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means

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Hospitable to the Hostile – Jesus Harbored in Derrida?

May 28, 2013 Todd Littleton Christ Following, Featured, Intersections

I hope to come back and comment on this. My morning read had me mashing some things up.

Demonstrating his own openness to continual revision, Derrida coined a new sign – hospitality – by synthesizing the words “hospitality” and “hostility.” Noting that both come from the same root word,

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