Monday, August 8, 2011

Real German Genius

It's no surprise that it is impossible to find a serviceable English translation of Philipp Mainlander's Philosophy of Redemption. Americans are only too happy to flirt with Schopenhauer, to get randy with Nietzche, to fake it with Heidegger, but Mainlander's theology of the God who wants to die...well...it's really too much. Mainlander believed that un-created God grew weary of contemplating his own beatus and created the world in time in order that he might extinguish himself with it. Mainlander mounted to the self inflicted hangman's noose in his own quarters on a stack of copies of the recently published Philosophy of Redemption. Let no one say he lacked the courage of his convictions - or the will to follow his Christology to its logical conclusion.

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