Analogical Ontology and Original Violence

"Without recourse to a notion of analogical relation, immanentist ontologies conceive of difference in terms of opposition and thus assume a kind of primordial violence in the order of being. Reality is seen as inherently ‘conflictual’ (TST, 296), and thus all relationships are but war by another means (TST, 282). By subscribing to an original or transcendental violence, these ontologies of immanence end up ontologizing the fall as a structural feature of finite existence (TST, 302)."

James K.A. Smith, Introducing Radical Orthodoxy, P. 195