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"Christian laughter is a maze: you could easily get snarled up within it." So says Michael A. Screech in his note to readers preceding this collection of fifty-three elegant and pithy essays. As Screech reveals, the question of whether laughter is acceptable to the god of the Old and New T...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Screech, Michael A. (Autor)
Otros Autores: Grafton, Anthony (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2015]
Temas:
Laughter > Religious aspects > Christianity.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
christian, christianity, religion, religious studies, faith, belief, worship, laughter, laughing, joy, essay collection, anthology, criticism, analysis, academic, scholarly, research, testament, old, new, god, holy, deity, theology, theological, dangerous, threat, classics, humanists, erasmus, rabelais, plato, aristotle, gospel, philosophy, philosophical, aesop, calvin, lucian, luther, socrates, renaissance, thinkers, heresy, reform.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Foreword
  • To the Reader
  • A Note on Translations and Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Laughter is the Property of Man
  • 2. Laughter in an Evil World
  • 3. Christian Humanists
  • 4. Jewish and Gentile 'Schoolmasters'
  • 5. The Mocking of the Crucified King
  • 6. The Old Testament Gospel
  • 7. Words and their Meanings
  • 8. The Mocking of Christ in the Old Testament
  • 9. Unholy Railing
  • 10. Good Holy Railing
  • 11. Diasyrm
  • 12. A God who Laughs to Scorn
  • 13. Erasmus on Diasyrm
  • 14. The Laughter of Jesus and the Laughter of the Father in the New Testament
  • 15. More Irony from Jesus
  • 16. Pitiless Laughter at Ugliness
  • 17. Ignorance or Madness? The Importance of a Gamma More Socratic Laughter in the Philebus
  • 18. Madman Laughs at Madman
  • 19. Laughing at Christ and Laughing at Carabba
  • 20. Laughing Back
  • 21. Christ as Divine Madman
  • 22. Madness Providentially Feigned by David: a Silenus
  • 23. Theophylact and a Lunatic's Chains
  • 24. Laughing with the Great Cardinal of Saint-Cher
  • 25. Jesus in Ecstatic Madness
  • 26. Lessons in Exegesis
  • 27. Plato and Christian Madness
  • 28. Drunk with God and Drunk with Wine
  • 29. Christ's Mad Disciples: Erotic Madness
  • 30. The Philosophy of Christ
  • 31. The Foolishness of God
  • 32. Socrates
  • 33. Christian Laughter all but Nipped in the Bud: Eutrapely Condemned
  • 34. The Gospel according to Lucian: Christianity is once again Stupid and Mad
  • 35. Lucian in the Pulpit
  • 36. A Taste of Lucianic Laughter in the Colloquies
  • 37. Laughter in the Annotations
  • 38. He who Calleth his Brother a Fool
  • 39. Fools in Cap-and-Bells?
  • 40. Caps and Bells Sneak In
  • 41. Obscure Men
  • 42. Dutch Wit, Gallic Licence and the Liturgical Year
  • 43. Christian Wit and Christian Comedy: 'The Great Jester of France'
  • 44. Christian Laughter at Shrove tide
  • 45. Seeking for Signs
  • 46. Christian Laughter for Faithful Folk
  • 47. Laughter at the Philosophy of Christ
  • 48. God's Coadjutors: Deed and Words and Christian Laughter
  • 49. Laughing at Idolatry
  • 50. Laughter and Christian Mythology
  • 51. Gluttony
  • 52. Realist Laughter: Laughter and Eternity
  • 53. Charity and Joy
  • Index

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