otherliness

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This otherliness - to borrow a phrase from my friends at offthemap. com - reflects an expansion of primal selfishness to ethical neighborliness, and then from neighborliness to something even more radical ... compassion and love to the non-neighbor - the other, the stranger, even the enemy.

Brian D. McLaren: Who's Going to Win, the Faithful or the Faithless? 2008
As you read the 'Confession', it soon becomes clear that this man, whom many regard with unrestrained 'otherliness', was no different than you or I in many respects.

Irish Blogs Nascent Narratives from the Edge of the World 2009