Emmanuel Falque

The Guide to Gethsemane: Anxiety, Suffering, Death

Übersetzer: Hughes, George

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Produktbeschreibung

¿In this dramatic opening to his triptych on Christ¿s passion, Emmanuel Falque demonstrates¿once again¿his complete refusal to rest with easy answers. Christ, he argues, experiences anxiety and suffering that are just as real and confusing as that of any ordinary person. The result is that God does not suffer at some comfortable distance but right here in our midst. One can hardly read this book without being deeply moved.¿¿Bruce Ellis Benson, author of Liturgy as a Way of Life Anxiety, suffering and death are not simply the ¿ills¿ of our society, nor are they uniquely the product of a sick and sinful humanity. We must all some day confront them, and we continually face their implications long before we do. In that sense, the Garden of Gethsemane is not merely a garden ¿outside the walls¿ of Jerusalem but also the essential horizon for all of us, whether we are believers or not. Doubtful of Heidegger¿s famous statement that the notion of salvation renders Christians unable authentically to experience anxiety in the face of death, Falque explores the Passion with a radical emphasis on the physicality and corporeality of Christ¿s suffering and death, and on continuities with the mortality of our bodies. Written in the wake of the death of a close friend, Falques¿s study is both theologically rigorous and marked by deeply human concerns. Falque is at pains to elaborate the question of death in terms not of faith, but of a ¿credible Christianity¿ that remains meaningful to nonbelievers. His account is therefore as much a work of philosophy as of theology¿and of philosophy explicated not through abstractions but through familiar and ordinary experience. Theology¿s task, for Falque, is to understand that human problems of the meaning of existence apply even to Christ, at least insofar as he lives in and shares our finitude. In Falque¿s remarkable account, Christ takes upon himself the burden of suffering finitude, so that he can undertake a passage through it, or a transformation of it. Emmanuel Falque is Honorary Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at the Catholic University of Paris. George Hughes has served as Professor in the Faculty of Letters at the University of Tokyo.

Produktdetails

• Perspectives in Continental Ph
• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780823281961
• ISBN-10: 0823281965
• Artikelnr.: 51481957

Autorenporträt

Emmanuel Falque (Author) Emmanuel Falque is Honorary Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at the Catholic University of Paris. His most recent book in English is The Wedding Feast of the Lamb: Eros, the Body, and the Eucharist. George Hughes (Translator) George Hughes has served as Professor in the Faculty of Letters at the University of Tokyo.

Inhaltsangabe

Translator
s Note xiii Preface to the English-Language Edition xv Opening: The Isenheim Altarpiece or
The Taking on Board of Suffering
xvii Introduction: Shifting Understandings of Anxiety 1 PART I: THE FACE-TO-FACE OF FINITUDE 1 From the Burden of Death to Flight before Death 7 §1 The Burden of Death, 7
§2 Fleeing from Death, 8 2 The Face of Death or Anxiety over Finitude 10 §3 Death
for Us
Humans, 10
§4 Genesis and Its Symbolism, 11
§5 The Mask of Perfection, 12
§6 The Image of Finitude in Man, 13
§7 Finitude: Finite and Infinite, 16
§8 Finitude and Anxiety, 16
§9 The Eclipse of Finitude, 17
§10 The Face of Death, 18
§11 To Die
with,
19 3 The Temptation of Despair or Anxiety over Sin 22 §13 Inevitable Death, 22
§14 The Conquest of Sin, 22
§15 Sin and Anxiety, 23
§16 The Temptation of Despair, 24 4 From the Affirmation of Meaninglessness to the Suspension of Meaning 26 §17 The Life Sentence, 26
§18 The Christian Witness, 27
§19 Meaninglessness and the Suspension of Meaning, 27 PART II: CHRIST FACED WITH ANXIETY OVER DEATH §20 Two Meditations on Death, 29
§21 Alarm and Anxiety, 31 5 The Fear of Dying and Christ
s
Alarm
33 §22 Taking on Fear and Abandonment, 33
§23 The Cup, Sadness, and Sleep, 34
§24 Resignation, Waiting, and Heroism, 35
§25 The Silence at the End, 36
§26 The Scenarios of Death, 37
§27 The Triple Failure of the Staging, 38
§28 From Alarm to Anxiety, 39 6 God
s Vigil 41 §29 Remaining Always Awake, 41
§30 The Passage of Death, the Present of the Passion, the Future of the Resurrection, 42
§31 Theological Actuality and Phenomenological Possibility, 43 7 The Narrow Road of Anxiety 45 §32 Indefiniteness, Reduction to Nothing, and Isolation, 45
§33 The Strait Gate, 46
§34 Anxiety over
Simply Death,
47
§35 Indefiniteness (Putting off the Cup) and the Powerless Power of God, 47
§36 Reduction to Nothing and Kenosis, 52
§37 The Isolation of Humankind and Communion with the Father, 54
§38 Of Anxiety Endured on the Horizon of Death, 55 8 Death and Its Possibilities 57 §39 Manner of Living, Possibility of the Impossibility, and Death as
Mineness,
57
§40 Being Vigilant at Gethsemane, 59
§41 From the Actuality of the Corpse to Possibilities for the Living, 60
§42 The Death That Is Always His: Suffering in God; The Gift of His Life and Refusal of Mastery, 63
§43 The Flesh Forgotten, 66 PART III: THE BODY-TO-BODY OF SUFFERING AND DEATH §44 Disappropriation and Incarnation, 69
§45 Embedding in the Flesh and Burial in the Earth, 70 9 From Self-Relinquishment to the Entry into the Flesh 73 §46 Suffering the World, 73
§47 Living in the World, 74
§48 Otherness and Corruptibility, 74
§49 Self-Relinquishment, 75
§50 Passing to the Father, 76
§51 Oneself as an Other, 77
§52 Destitution and Auto-Affection, 78
§53 Alterity and Fraternity, 79
§54 Entry into the Flesh, 80
§55 The Anxiety
in
the Flesh, 81
§56 Toward Dumb Experience, 82 10 Suffering Occluded 84 §57 An Opportunity Thwarted, 84
§58 Called into Question, 86
§59 Toward a Phenomenology of Suffering, 86 11 Suffering Incarnate 88 §60 Perceiving, or the Challenge of the Toucher-Touching, 88
§61 The Modes of the Incarnate Being, 91
§62 The Excess of the Suffering Body, 94 12 The Revealing Sword 97 §63 Sobbing and Tears, 97
§64 Fleshly Exodus, 99
§65 The Vulnerable Flesh, 100
§66 The Non-Substitutable Substitution, 101
§67 The Act of Surrendering Oneself, 103
§68 Toward a Revelation, 104
§69 Useless Suffering, 104 Conclusion: The In-Fans [without-Speech] or the Silent Flesh 107 Epilogue: From One Triptych to Another 111 Notes 115 Index 157