Good stuff. I especially appreciate your realistic (critical) appraisal of where her Agonistic paradigm for conflict 'resolution' (maybe better to call it management, if the goal is NOT resolution or disappearance of differences) fails to replace the earlier alternative models she says are inadequate: you rightly show that hers is so similar to "theirs" in function as to render it not really an alternative.
Interestingly, I had just been reading the first two chapters of 1 John in my Grk NT this a.m. and there I noticed the assumption that in a loving mutually-committed community of believers there will be constant "sin" or bumping into each other and that anyone who denies this ongoing reality is fooling himself and perpetuating "sin" by that unrealistic polyannish illusion. Instead, says the old apostle, cheerfully acknowledge that we have an ongoing Mediator who "takes care of" the sin (in this case social horizontal wounds) even while continuing to urge us to keep on working at community, or what you might call "presence."
Good stuff. I especially appreciate your realistic (critical) appraisal of where her Agonistic paradigm for conflict 'resolution' (maybe better to call it management, if the goal is NOT resolution or disappearance of differences) fails to replace the earlier alternative models she says are inadequate: you rightly show that hers is so similar to "theirs" in function as to render it not really an alternative.
Interestingly, I had just been reading the first two chapters of 1 John in my Grk NT this a.m. and there I noticed the assumption that in a loving mutually-committed community of believers there will be constant "sin" or bumping into each other and that anyone who denies this ongoing reality is fooling himself and perpetuating "sin" by that unrealistic polyannish illusion. Instead, says the old apostle, cheerfully acknowledge that we have an ongoing Mediator who "takes care of" the sin (in this case social horizontal wounds) even while continuing to urge us to keep on working at community, or what you might call "presence."