Athens and Jerusalem: The Conflict Between Hellenism and Hebraism in the West

Für die griechische Anthropologie sind Ideen die Heimat des Menschen, und der Mensch ist essentiell a-historisch. Für die jüdische Anthropologie ist der Mensch nach dem Ebenbild Gottes geschafften worden, um die Welt zu regieren, und infolgedessen ist er historisch. Die beiden Anthropologien sind nicht zu vereinbaren.
Vilém Flusser (1920 – 1991), Jude sein: Essays, Briefe, Fiktionen, Hamburg 2014(Berlin Wien 2000), S. 68

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For Greek anthropology, ideas are the homeland of man, and man is essentially ahistorical. For Jewish anthropology, man was created in the image of God to rule the world, and as a result, he is historical. The two anthropologies are irreconcilable.
—Vilém Flusser (1920–1991), Jude sein: Essays, Briefe, Fiktionen, Hamburg 2014 (Berlin Wien 2000), p. 68

...In fact, the essence of Christianity since Saint Paul has been nothing other than the irreconcilable conflict between Hebraism and Hellenism.
And this very conflict and paradox inherent in Christianity gave birth to European civilization. Every time an attempt was made to purify faith, humanity faced the crisis of Christianity’s absurdity and the self-dissolution into nihilism. As a reaction to this crisis, the system of knowledge and power—an inheritance from Hellenism—was strengthened and expanded.
—Hirono Seki (1944–), Plato and Capitalism, Hokuto Publishing 1996 (Revised Edition), p. 435