tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9608308.post113327021129372743..comments2023-02-12T04:40:26.615-05:00Comments on Little Gidding: The Empire and Postmodernism.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10837198581605171542noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9608308.post-1133373634707470252005-11-30T13:00:00.000-05:002005-11-30T13:00:00.000-05:00Alas, Babylon... such a versatile metaphor...I sho...Alas, Babylon... such a versatile metaphor...<BR/>I should be clear that the identification of Babylon as Walsh and Keesmat's empire is my construal, and is not the thrust of their book. One suspects that if they had to name the empire, it would be "America."<BR/>I am also considering Babylon under a slightly different biblical usage than Neuhaus in his "First Things" article. His article emphasizes Babylon as the place of exile, the city whose welfare is to be sought because in her welfare is our welfare, in which we dwell but are not at home. This is the Babylon of Jeremiah and Daniel. I am emphasizing Babylon as the whore of Revelation, whose downfall (subversion?) is to be sought and rejoiced over. Yet even as I write this I am struck by the inseparability of the two ideas, that God himself joins together in His poetry of time and place. Perhaps this tension is one of the things I find missing in "Colossians Remixed".<BR/> In any case, all this Babylon stuff is my take, and should not be blamed on Walsh and Keesmaat.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10837198581605171542noreply@blogger.com