| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1 The question of tragedy; Beyond tragedy; Tragedy's landscape; 2 The Bible and tragedy; Tragedy beyond ancient Greece; Tragedy and the Old Testament; Tragedy and the New Testament; After the Bible; 3 Apollo and rational coherence; Philosophical coherences; Morality and poetic justice; Theology and words; Why not tragedy?; 4 Prometheus and the economics of sacrifice; What's a life worth?; Economics and replacement; Gods and sacrifices; Kings and the wheel; Political sacrifice; Rituals |
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5 Philoctetes, contingency, andbeing onstageTime and circumstance; Place and circumstance; Modern tragedy; God and contingency; 6 Oedipus, the novel, and guilt; Freedom and sin; Plato, performance, and deception; Aristotle and the novel; Grief; 7 Dionysus and perception; Tragedy and blindness; Tragedy and hiddenness; Desire and sight; Choosing blindness; Tragedy's end; Index |
| Summary |
Tragedy is a genre for exploring loss and suffering, and this book traces the vital areas where tragedy has shaped and been a resource for Christian theology. There is a history to the relationship of theology and tragedy; tragic literature has explored areas of theological interest, and is present in the Bible and ongoing theological concerns. Christian theology has a long history of using what is at hand, and the genre of tragedy is no different. What are the merits and challenges of placing the central narrative of the passion, death and resurrection of Christ in tragic terms? This study examines important and shared concerns of theology and tragedy: sacrifice and war, rationality and order, historical contingency, blindness, guilt, and self-awareness. Theologians such as Reinhold Niebuhr, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Martin Luther King Jr., Simone Weil, and Boethius have explored tragedy as a theological resource. The historical relationship of theology and tragedy reveals that neither is monolithic, and both remain diverse and unstable areas of human thought. This fascinating book will be of keen interest to theologians, as well as scholars in the fields of literary studies and tragic theory |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
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Jesus Christ
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| SUBJECT |
Jesus Christ. fast (OCoLC)fst00040116 |
| Subject |
Tragic, The -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Tragedy -- History and criticism
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RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Anthropology.
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Tragedy.
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Tragic, The -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2018031199 |
| ISBN |
9781315107691 |
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1315107694 |
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9781351607841 |
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1351607847 |
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9781351607834 |
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1351607839 |
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9781351607827 |
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1351607820 |
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