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Alone, the body remembers that it is ?nite; alone, it roots us in
its limits, our last frontier (for how long?); and even if—especially
if—it forgets, the body alone still prevents us from being God to
ourselves and others.13
We are, as I began by noting, in a crisis. We all know this. Yet perhaps we can
now see that the real cause of the crisis is not simply one of our own making,
by adopting the wrong economic or social program; rather we have been put in
crisis by Christ himself. As he said, approaching his Passion: “Now is the judg-
ment of the world,” literally: now is the crisis (κρ?σις) of this world (John 12:31).
We have been challenged to see life and death otherwise than we might want,
and this reversal is starker today than it has ever been before. Our judgment
depends, as it always has, on how we respond to it.
13 Herve Juvin, The Coming of the Body, (New York: Verso), 177.
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