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Displacing Christian origins : philosophy, secularity, and the New Testament /
Recent critical theory is curiously preoccupied with the metaphors and ideas of early Christianity, especially the religion of Paul. The haunting of secular thought by the very religion it seeks to overcome may seem surprising at first, but Ward Blanton argues that this recent return by theorists to...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
©2007.
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| Colección: | Religion and postmodernism.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Recent critical theory is curiously preoccupied with the metaphors and ideas of early Christianity, especially the religion of Paul. The haunting of secular thought by the very religion it seeks to overcome may seem surprising at first, but Ward Blanton argues that this recent return by theorists to the resources of early Christianity has precedent in modern and ostensibly secularizing philosophy, from Kant to Heidegger. Displacing Christian Origins traces the current critical engagement of Agamben, Derrida, and?i?ek, among others, back into nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century philosopher. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 220 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-217) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226056883 0226056880 1281959138 9781281959133 9786611959135 6611959130 |