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Critical Theory and Early Christianity

Name: Critical Theory and Early Christianity
Author: Matthew G. Whitlock

Matthew G. Whitlock

14 May 2022

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Book Synopsis

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.

Product Details

ISBN: 9781781794135
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Equinox Publishing, (14 May 2022)
Number of Pages: 416
Weight: 626 grams
Language: English
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 25 mm
Categories:: Christianity