"Christianity or Europe". The title of one of Novalis's most famous works, Christenheit oder Europa, and which has been the subject of plural and -sometimes- contradictory approaches, is a good starting point for the discussion to which these pages would like to contribute. . Because the conjunction that links the two terms can denote difference as well as equivalence. That is, antonyms or synonyms come to express very different historical and conceptual positions. In the second, to say Europe is nothing more than to say Christianity, since Europe is Greek philosophy, Roman law and Christianity; while in the first it comes to personify the revolutionary subversion of the corpus mysticum of the medieval order: it is the Peace of Westphalia and, finally, the French Revolution. It is not easy, therefore, to agree on such sharply opposed positions in terminology and philosophy.
