{"id":1647,"date":"2013-01-05T12:29:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-05T12:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/01\/valjean-and-javert-the-two-christianities-of-les-miserables.html"},"modified":"2013-01-05T12:29:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-05T12:29:00","slug":"valjean-and-javert-the-two-christianities-of-les-miserables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/01\/valjean-and-javert-the-two-christianities-of-les-miserables.html","title":{"rendered":"Valjean and Javert: The Two Christianities of Les Miserables"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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***Spoiler alert: this post presumes that you know the\u00a0storyline<\/a>\u00a0of \u2018Les Mis.\u2019***<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
After watching \u201cLes Miserables\u201d in the theater, I wanted to stand up at the end and shout, \u201cThis is what Christianity really is!\u201d kind of like what Peter Enns wrote on\u00a0his blog<\/a>. But there are two Christianities represented in \u201cLes Mis\u201d \u2014 by the police inspector Javert and the convict Jean Valjean \u2014 and though Valjean\u2019s version triumphs in the film, Javert\u2019s Christianity is winning big time in today\u2019s America. Some say Javert represents \u201cjustice\u201d and Valjean represents \u201cmercy,\u201d so we need a happy mix of the two, but that\u2019s already choosing Javert\u2019s Christianity, because Valjean exhibits not only mercy, but an alternative justice that is incomprehensible to the penal retributive justice of modernity. The question of whether we see the world through the eyes of Javert or Valjean amounts to our understanding of justice. For Javert, justice is retribution in the interest of maintaining an abstract order; for Valjean, justice is solidarity in the interest of personal love.<\/span><\/div>\n
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***Spoiler alert: this post presumes that you know the\u00a0storyline\u00a0of \u2018Les Mis.\u2019*** After watching \u201cLes Miserables\u201d in the theater, I wanted to stand up at the end and shout, \u201cThis is what Christianity really is!\u201d kind of like what Peter Enns wrote on\u00a0his blog. 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