21 levels of Self-Deception: THIRD EDITION by Tom Wallace - HTML preview

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those ruled by partial sight and limited voice. We do not seek partiality for its own sake, but for the sake of the connections and unexpected openings situated knowledge makes possible… the joining of partial views and halting voices into a collective subject position that promises a vision of a means of ongoing finite achievement, of living within limits and contradictions, ie., of views from somewhere.’

Donna Haraway (my emphases). (Haraway is contrasting with Thomas Nagel’s ‘view from nowhere’, mentioned briefly in an earlier chapter, which is in many ways the epitome of the current world view.)

Sharon Welch compares ‘beloved community’ (the idea for which she has developed from Martin Luther King) with the Kingdom of God. She says:

‘The Kingdom of God implies conquest, control and final victory over the elements of nature as well as over the structures of injustice. The ‘beloved community’ names the matrix within which life is celebrated, love is worshipped, and partial victories over injustice lay the ground work for further acts of criticism and courageous defiance.’

Sharon Welch, as quoted by Grace Jantzen in Becoming Divine. Welch continues:

‘A ‘symbolic’ rather than an ethic or an ideal. Divinity is not a mark of that which is other than finite. Grace is not that which comes from outside to transform the conditions of finitude. Divinity, or grace, is the resilient, fragile, healing power of finitude itself. The terms holy and divine denote a quality of being within the

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