Christianity functions as the axial pivot of world history’s turning

Evidence

Christianity brings about time’s great ‘volte face’: ‘This new principle is the axis (Die Angel) around which the history of the world turns.’ Christianity is not one moment among many but the pivot which brings all into motion, as we can see from the old distinction ante natum, post natum. … History ends from that point (bis hierher) and begins from that point (von daher geht). — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 827

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s brain-work interest: Christianity as structural pivot mirrors how plastic formation hinges on a decisive conversion point. — connects to: Christianity is the historical pivot that divides all time before and after it.; The Western idea that history moves toward an endpoint descends from Christian eschatology — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 159
• SEED: Angle: the pivot-point structure — how every system of thought has a hinge around which all its history turns.