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Beschreibung
After Writing provides a significant contribution to the growing genre of works which offers a challenge to modern and postmodern accounts of Christianity. Catherine Pickstock shows how Platonic philosophy did not assume a primacy of metaphysical presence, as had previously been thought, but a primacy of liturgical theory and practice. The author also provides a significant rethinking of Christian understandings of language, temporal and bodily life, and notions of the presence of God by discussing the Christian understandings of the liturgical practice, especially in the Medieval and pre-Enlightenment era. Through a detailed reading of Plato's Phaedrus, the medieval Roman Rite, and a discussion of the theology of the Eucharist, the book indicates directions for the restoration of the liturgical order.

This book will be required reading for all systematic and philosophical theologians and their students, besides being of great interest to liturgists, historians and linguists. The ideas presented in the book are both significant in themselves and of great use at a teaching level.

After Writing provides a significant contribution to the growing genre of works which offers a challenge to modern and postmodern accounts of Christianity. Catherine Pickstock shows how Platonic philosophy did not assume a primacy of metaphysical presence, as had previously been thought, but a primacy of liturgical theory and practice. The author also provides a significant rethinking of Christian understandings of language, temporal and bodily life, and notions of the presence of God by discussing the Christian understandings of the liturgical practice, especially in the Medieval and pre-Enlightenment era. Through a detailed reading of Plato's Phaedrus, the medieval Roman Rite, and a discussion of the theology of the Eucharist, the book indicates directions for the restoration of the liturgical order.

This book will be required reading for all systematic and philosophical theologians and their students, besides being of great interest to liturgists, historians and linguists. The ideas presented in the book are both significant in themselves and of great use at a teaching level.

Über den Autor
Catherine Pickstock is a Research Fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Part I: The Polity of Death:.

1. Socrates Goes Outside the City: Writing and Exteriority.

2. Spatialization: The Middle of Modernity.

3. Signs of Death. Transition: "Can My Eating Slake Your Hunger": The Evacuation of Liturgy.

Part II: The Sacred Polis:.

4. I Will Go Unto the Altar of God: The Impossible Liturgy.

5. Seraphic Voices: The Space of Doxology.

6. The Resurrection of the Sign.

Conclusion.

Index.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780631206729
ISBN-10: 0631206728
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Pickstock, Catherine
Hersteller: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Catherine Pickstock
Erscheinungsdatum: 20.11.1997
Gewicht: 0,455 kg
Artikel-ID: 106867020

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