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Date/Time 28 Dec 2014 10:07:57pm
Williams articulates church-as-common-good better than anyone, and Myers's explanation shows why we should trust him. Still, there's a move here (both in his Sharia speech and in Myers's explanation) that seems to me to paint over a crack in the logical plaster. A kenotic church that gives up its theo-politics to Shari'a removes itself from the space where a common good is imagined. At the same time, it actually maintains a kind of ghost-sovereignty (as charitable benefactor). So it engages in a kind of mock-kenosis that doesn't actually give up power, but does manage to bifurcate the common good along ethno-religious lines. Right?