The main outcome is that Christianity substitutes devout, passive, deferential love for the combative love I am praising here, that earthly creation of the differentiated birth of a new world and a happiness won point by point.

God’s Eros for the world moves God to encounter and speak to persons in the world by moving to them, encountering them as friend and parent. It is Eros, not acceleration, that makes the world. If acceleration leads to alienation, as Rosa has taught us, then Eros leads to resonance. If acceleration inevitably produces alienation, and if alienation’s

To be radical, of course, means to seize a matter at its roots. More radical Christian faith can only mean committing oneself without reserve to the ‘crucified God’. This is dangerous. It does not promise the confirmation of one’s own conceptions, hopes and good intentions. It promises first of all the pain of repentance and fundamental change. It

We have to unlearn the habits of consumerism in order to learn how to be friends.