Posted by Daniel Bogert-O'Brien on July 23, 19103 at 16:16:56:

In Reply to: Re: Illich on radio - CBC posted by Carolyn Frank on January 09, 19103 at 20:26:54:

My Doctoral work was a listening in (as far as the text as an artifact can give clues to the person) to Illich's voice. For 20 years I was uncomfortably aware of his work and his apophatic theology--a challenge not merely to particular ideologies but to the religion/culture of modernity, a tech-gnosticism that emerged from the corruption of Chrsitianity taking place through the moves of Pope Gregory VII (about 1025) and various other councils of the church. This marked the move from the immediacy and somatic reality of Incarnation as experienced sacramentally in "Comida" inspiratio to the juridical "captivity" of the sacred and the sacraments. The "humus comida" of the body of Christ became the technical achievement, the moral correctness of the clerisy and the hubris of a spiritual technician, and the instrumental achievement of the devices of an institution.
The apophatic theology of Esteva's Grroots postmodernism continues Illich's work past his death last Dec 2. I wonder if it is not time for a gathering of those, for e-mail is not even a substitute but really a deception, who have been touched by his voice to sit a table together? I am willing to host here in Ottawa if others would come.

Dr. Daniel Bogert-O'Brien
Universite St. Paul
Ottawa ON

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