Paul M Blowers

Visions and Faces of the Tragic

The Mimesis of Tragedy and the Folly of Salvation in Early Christian Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

This study presses beyond the pervasive early Christian aversion to pagan theatrical art in all its forms and investigates the growing critical engagement with the genre of tragedy by Christian authors, especially in the post-Constantinian era.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 816g
• ISBN-13: 9780198854104
• ISBN-10: 0198854102
• Artikelnr.: 58457252

Autorenporträt

Paul M. Blowers (Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 1988) is a scholar of early Christianity and patristics, and since 1989 has taught church history and historical theology at the Emmanuel Christian Seminary, Milligan College, Tennessee

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface and Acknowledgments
* Abbreviations
* 1: Introduction - Excavating Tragical Perspectives in Early
Christianity: Trajectories of Inquiry and Interpretive Challenges
* 2: Tragical Mimesis and Biblical Interpretation I: Primitive
Tragedies in Genesis
* 3: Tragical Mimesis and Biblical Interpretation II: Exposing and
Expounding the Tragic in Sacred History
* 4: The Tragic Christian Self: Three Late-Ancient Profiles
* 5: Tragical Conscience: Contemplating the Faces and Bodies of Tragedy
in the Foreground of the Church
* 6: Tragical Pathos: The Expanding Christian Repertoire of Tragical
Emotions
* 7: The Theological Scope of Early Christian Tragical Vision
* Epilogue: Hope and the Christian Tragical Pathos
* Select Bibliography