Christian universality merges holy war with political war into a single undifferentiated violence.

Evidence

In keeping with the spirit of Christianity, which admits of no boundaries, there are for it no “very distant” peoples. Holy war and political war, which in Jewish law were constitutionally distinguished, are here blended into one. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 473

Categorization

  • QUESTION: Worth chasing: does Rosenzweig see this blending as a Christian pathology or as its universal redemptive logic? The passage seems ambivalent.