Christianity’s Westernization is a process of self-reabsorption and self-overcoming.

Evidence

The banality, in Hannah Arendt’s sense, of yet another division: Europe-so-called “Christian Europe” -divides itself, from the beginning, between an enemy within and an enemy without. … “Christianity is coextensive with the West,” writes Jean-Luc Nancy, “with a certain process of Westernization that consists in a form of self-reabsorption and self-overcoming.” — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 59

Categorization

• DEFINE: Nancy’s definition of Westernization as self-reabsorption/self-overcoming is a striking conceptual framework worth preserving.