Critical Theory and Early Christianity
This volume aims to create--in Walter Benjamin's terms--dialectical images from early Christian texts and the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It blasts the past and the present into one another, creating new constellations of thought, ones connected with tensions and mediated by theory (med... Read more
Published: 2022
Pages: 404
eBook: 9781781794128
This volume aims to create--in Walter Benjamin's terms--dialectical images from early Christian texts and the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It blasts the past and the present into one another, creating new constellations of thought, ones connected with tensions and mediated by theory (mediation being what Theodor Adorno adds to Benjamin's concept of the dialectical image). Our ancient images derive from the Gospels, the Apostle Paul, Revelation, Irenaeus, Origen, and Augustine. Our modern images and theories derive from Walter Benjamin, Gilles Deleuze, Alain Badiou, and Judith Butler. Together these images and theories challenge the way we think about gentrification, progress, early Christianity, revolutionary movements, history, the body of Christ, canonicity, language, gender, and bodies, both human and non-human. Eleven international scholars contribute to this volume. These scholars are experts in the fields of Biblical Studies, Early Christian Studies, Philosophy, and Critical Theory.
| Cover | Cover | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Contents | v | ||
| Preface | vii | ||
| Chapter 1 | 1 | ||
| Part 1 | 33 | ||
| Chapter 2 | 35 | ||
| Chapter 3 | 50 | ||
| Chapter 4 | 66 | ||
| Part 2 | 97 | ||
| Chapter 5 | 99 | ||
| Chapter 6 | 127 | ||
| Chapter 7 | 147 | ||
| Chapter 8 | 184 | ||
| Part 3 | 211 | ||
| Chapter 9 | 213 | ||
| Chapter 10 | 236 | ||
| Chapter 11 | 252 | ||
| Chapter 12 | 268 | ||
| Part 4 | 293 | ||
| Chapter 13 | 295 | ||
| Chapter 14 | 314 | ||
| Chapter 15 | 350 | ||
| Index of Biblical References | 367 | ||
| Index of Classical References and Authors | 371 | ||
| Index of Early Christian Writings | 372 | ||
| Index of Jewish Writings | 374 | ||
| Index of Modern Authors | 375 | ||
| Index of Subjects | 380 | ||
| Studies in Ancient Religion and Culture | 393 |