One should understand that in saying that Christianity has not been thought right through Patočka intends that such a task be undertaken; not only by means of a more through thematization but also by means of a political and historical setting-in-train, by means of political and historical action; and he advocates that according to the logic of a messianic eschatology that is nevertheless indissociable from phenomenology. Something has not yet arrived, nether at Christianity nor by means of Christianity. What has not yet arrived at or happened to Christianity is Christianity. Christianity has not yet come to Christianity.
- Jacques Derrida, The Gift of Death (University of Chicago Press, 1996), 28.
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