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THE MIDWINTER SACRIFICE: A Sequel to "Can Morality Be Christian?"

THE MIDWINTER SACRIFICE: A Sequel to "Can Morality Be Christian?" A N G E L A K I j o u r n a l o f th e th e o r e t ic a l h u m a n i ti e s v o lu m e 6 n u m b e r 2 a u g u s t 2 00 1 sually, Christianity is seen as suppressing UÒmoral luck,Ó or the idea that, to a degree at least, we require good fortune if we are to be good. However, in this essay, I want to argue, to the contrary, that Christianity embraces moral luck to such an extreme degree that it transforms all received ideas of the ethical. In the course of this argument, I shall try to show that these received ideas of the ethical, which may or may not permit some play to Òmoral luck,Ó all subscribe to a Òsacrificial economy.Ó And that they do so in two different variants: either in john milbank terms of the giving up of the lesser for the greater, or else of a more radical notion of absolute sacrifice of self for the other, without THE MIDWINTE R any ÒreturnÓ for, or of, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities Taylor & Francis

THE MIDWINTER SACRIFICE: A Sequel to "Can Morality Be Christian?"

Milbank, John
Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities , Volume 6 (2): 17 – Aug 1, 2001
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A N G E L A K I j o u r n a l o f th e th e o r e t ic a l h u m a n i ti e s v o lu m e 6 n u m b e r 2 a u g u s t 2 00 1 sually, Christianity is seen as suppressing UÒmoral luck,Ó or the idea that, to a degree at least, we require good fortune if we are to be good. However, in this essay, I want to argue, to the contrary, that Christianity embraces moral luck to such an extreme degree that it transforms all received ideas of the ethical. In the course of this argument, I shall try to show that these received ideas of the ethical, which may or may not permit some play to Òmoral luck,Ó all subscribe to a Òsacrificial economy.Ó And that they do so in two different variants: either in john milbank terms of the giving up of the lesser for the greater, or else of a more radical notion of absolute sacrifice of self for the other, without THE MIDWINTE R any ÒreturnÓ for, or of,

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