Sunday, September 16, 2012

Oikonomia


Not only do the two alleged meanings of the term oikonomia--that which refers to the internal organization of the divine life, and that which concerns the history of salvation--not contradict themselves, but they are correlated and become fully intelligible only in their functional relation.

That is to say, they constitute the two sides of a single divine oikonomia, in which ontology and pragmatics, Trinitarian articulation and government of the world refer back to each other for the solution of their aporias.

         - Giorgio Agamben, The Kingdom and the Glory, 51

    Stanford University Press, http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=16145

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