Critical Theory and Early Christianity
Equinox Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78179-413-5 (ISBN)
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.
Matthew G. Whitlock (PhD, The Catholic University of America, 2008) is Associate Professor of New Testament at Seattle University. His research focuses on Acts of the Apostles, the Apostle Paul, New Testament Poetry, Critical Theory, and Science Fiction. His publications have focused on topics ranging from New Testament poetry in the Catholic Biblical Quarterly to the Body Without Organs and Christianity in Deleuze and Guattari Studies. He is currently working on a book of dialectical images from the science fiction of Philip K. Dick and from the letters of the Apostle Paul.
Preface: Dialectical Images and Critical Theory
Mathew G. Whitlock
1. Introduction: Making Early Christian Texts Strange (Again)
Matthew G. Whitlock
Part I Walter Benjamin
2. Walter Benjamin and Early Christian Texts
Matthew G. Whitlock
3. Reading, Libraries, and Urban Change in the Shadow of Capitalism and Apocalypse: Reading Walter Benjamin and John of Patmos
Robert Paul Seesengood, Albright College, Pennsylvania
4. “On the Concept of History”: St. Augustine and Walter Benjamin
C.A. Levenson, Idaho State University
Part II Gilles Deleuze
5. Gilles Deleuze and Early Christian Texts
Matthew G. Whitlock
6. The Deleuzioguattarian Body of Christ without Organs
B. H. McLean, University of Toronto
7. The Many Acts of the Apostles: Simulacra and Simulation
Matthew G. Whitlock and Philip Tite, University of Washington
8. Face-ing the Nations: Becoming a Majority Empire of God Reterritorialization, Language, and Imperial Racism in Revelation 7:9-17
Sharon Jacob, Pacific School of Religion
Part III Alain Badiou
9. Alain Badiou and Early Christian Texts
Matthew G. Whitlock
10. Christianity Appears First, As Itself
Bruce Worthington, University of Toronto
11. Towards a Vulgar Marxist Reading of Christian Origins Today
James Crossley, St Marys University, London
12. Recapitulating the Event: Reading Irenaeus with Badiou
Hollis Phelps, Mercer University, Georgia
Part IV Judith Butler
13. Judith Butler and Early Christian Texts
Matthew G. Whitlock
14. Paul Exposed: Reading Galatians with Judith Butler
Valérie Nicolet, Institut protestant de théologie, faculté de Paris
15. Mattering Bodies: Animacy and Justice in Origen’s On First Principles
Peter Anthony Mena, University of San Diego
| Erscheinungsdatum | 03.05.2022 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Studies in Ancient Religion and Culture |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 4078 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte |
| Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78179-413-8 / 1781794138 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78179-413-5 / 9781781794135 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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