What sort of “process” is adequate?
“Terry Eagleton is not prepared to come out as a Christian. Yet his most recent book shows he is closer to Christianity than Marxism. … This is confirmed later on, when he notes that Dawkins and Hitchens have no use for such embarrassingly old-fashioned ideas as depravity and redemption. Even after Auschwitz there is nothing in their view to be redeemed from.” “He concludes that the key blindness of Dawkins and Hitchens is their refusal to see that true humanism must have a ‘tragic’ dimension: Tragic humanism, whether in its socialist, Christian, or psychoanalytic varieties, holds that only by a process of self-dispossession and radical remaking can humanity come into its own.”
_ This begs big questions: what sort of ‘process’ is adequate?
