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oppositeness
noun
The state or condition of being opposite.
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Some of his original metaphors, such as the coincidence of opposites, enfolding/unfolding, God as the Not Other, and as the Oppositeness of opposites, are controlled by and witness to that same asymmetrical relationship, yet lead our speculative imaginations in some new directions that would otherwise remain unexplored.
In his words, "the oppositeness of opposites is oppositeness without oppositeness".
Designating God as the Oppositeness of such opposites can take us from the distinctions and oppositions with which we are familiar to the One who is responsible for there being such oppositions.
In fact, God's oppositeness encompasses or enfolds all opposites in God as identically God and encompasses or unfolds all opposites in creation by constituting them as what they are in all their determinate, finite differences.
We are to think together both the way finite things are opposed and God's transcendent oppositeness that is "opposed" to those opposites, not as they are to one another, but so as to be ontologically responsible for the oppositions with which we are familiar.
Yet God's oppositeness is "without oppositeness" since God's distinctiveness is unlimited and beyond familiar oppositions.
And sex? "Tristan is all about things I keep coming back to in my work – male and female, sexuality, oppositeness.
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