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How Jesus saw others

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David Harcourt
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Posted: 4 Aug 2010 12:09 am

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It occurs to me that Jesus saw people completely differently from virtually everyone who has ever lived.

[Oh no! Jesus! At this point, the audience stampedes to the exit, leaving the speaker to talk to himself.]

It would seem that Jesus looked at each person - every person, irrespective of who they were - as a real entity, of real and immediate interest and concern to him.

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Posted: 4 Aug 2010 12:15 am

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If you think about what this would involve if you tried to do it, you will be able to establish the distance between yourself and Jesus.

In my case, it’s a vast distance.

As close as you can get to the way in which Jesus saw other people might be by considering the life of, say, Mahatma Gandhi or Nelson Mandela.

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Posted: 4 Aug 2010 12:15 am

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Another way of looking at this is to consider the phenomenon of Jesus in the light of Michel Foucault’s observation about the (for Foucault) “absolute unreality of other people”.

Unlike Foucault, Jesus invariably behaved as if he fully apprehended – and valued - the absolute reality of every person he met.

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Posted: 4 Aug 2010 12:16 am

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This means that the greatest possible distance between Jesus and another person is that between Jesus and Michel Foucault (and anyone else who thinks like Foucault).

I hereby dub this distance "one foucault".

There you are: a new system of measurement is established for the ages.

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