ABSTRACT
The chapter begins to justify the argument that there is a complex of dynamic forces that has largely determined the shape and function of what is understood as the present. We start with an examination of the nature and impact of the Christian Deity, regarding which the debate about abortion is presented as a contemporary manifestation of the long challenge to the Church to address the irreconcilable elements of the core dynamic: the sought absolutism of the Deity, through its terrestrial agents, and the optimised aspirational search for sympathetic conditions by the subject faithful. The Church began a serious attempt at compromise between these elements following the arrival of Protestantism and Enlightenment thought. Thereby it is evidence of the regeneration dynamic as it applies to failed magnitudes. However, in the face of sturdy populism, such compromise is now regarded by the dominant interests to have reached its limit, and the Church has been forced to turn to the Constitutional Court – the C constitutional dynamic – of the State to preserve the remains of its former absolutist dominance. This is the first illustration that the source of present disruption across the social landscape has emerged from originary sources. However, this argument is founded on the premise that all these dynamics – the core and its wider derivatives – are the means constructed by dominant interests to veil the absolutism of reality and thereby induce subjection.
