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The Gospel’s Uniqueness: Election and Untranslatability
Author(s) -
Lindbeck George
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
modern theology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.144
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1468-0025
pISSN - 0266-7177
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0025.00047
Subject(s) - uniqueness , gospel , narrative , semiotics , christianity , epistemology , perspective (graphical) , hegemony , philosophy , aesthetics , sociology , literature , linguistics , theology , political science , psychology , social psychology , law , mathematics , art , geometry , politics
This essay is an experiment in looking at the uniqueness of Christianity from the perspective of religions as community‐forming comprehensive semiotic systems. Uniqueness in this outlook consists formally of untranslatability and materially of the unsubstitutable memories and narratives which shape communities identities. The thesis is explored that it is now possible to regain in non‐supercessionist form the memories and narratives which gave pre‐modern non‐Marcionite Christianity its community‐constituting self‐understanding as elect people in such a way as to help transform Christian relations to non‐biblical religions in an Israel‐like non‐hegemonic direction.