From this date five years ago in The Guardian—
Alice Munro: An Appreciation by Margaret Atwood—
"The central Christian tenet is that
two disparate and mutually exclusive elements—
divinity and humanity— got jammed together
in Christ, neither annihilating the other.
The result was not a demi-god, or a God
in disguise: God became totally a human being
while remaining at the same time totally divine.
To believe either that Christ was only a man or
that he was simply God was declared heretical
by the early Christian church. Christianity thus
depends on a denial of either/or classifying logic
and an acceptance of both-at-once mystery.
Logic says that A cannot be both itself and non-A
at the same time; Christianity says it can. The
formulation 'A but also non-A' is indispensable to it."
Related literary material— "Excluded Middle" and "Couple of Tots."
See also "The Divided Cube" and "Mimsy Were the Borogoves."
