On Tragedy And Transcendence

Author : Khegan M. Delport
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 326 pages
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Release : 2021-10-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532697760

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On Tragedy and Transcendence by Khegan M. Delport Pdf

From the time of Plato’s proposed expulsion of the poets, tragedy has repeatedly proposed a challenge to philosophical and theological certainties. This is apparent already in early Christianity amongst leading figures during the patristic age. But this raises the question: Why was the theme of tragedy still accepted and deployed throughout the history of Christianity nevertheless? Is this merely an accident or is there something more substantial at play? Can Christian theology take the tragic seriously? Must Christianity ultimately deny the tragic to be coherent, or might it be able to sustain its negativity? Some like George Steiner, David Bentley Hart, and John Milbank have doubts about such a coherency, but others think differently. This book aims to examine this debate, laying out the lines of disagreement and continuing tensions. Through a critical examination of the work of Donald MacKinnon and the eminent Christian thinker Rowan Williams, the book aims to show that there is a path for reconciling the claims of Christian orthodoxy and the experience of tragedy, one that is able to maintain a metaphysical foundation for both real transcendence and unfolding historicity, without denying either.

Author : Khegan M. Delport
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532697784

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On Tragedy and Transcendence by Khegan M. Delport Pdf

From the time of Plato's proposed expulsion of the poets, tragedy has repeatedly proposed a challenge to philosophical and theological certainties. This is apparent already in early Christianity amongst leading figures during the patristic age. But this raises the question: Why was the theme of tragedy still accepted and deployed throughout the history of Christianity nevertheless? Is this merely an accident or is there something more substantial at play? Can Christian theology take the tragic seriously? Must Christianity ultimately deny the tragic to be coherent, or might it be able to sustain its negativity? Some like George Steiner, David Bentley Hart, and John Milbank have doubts about such a coherency, but others think differently. This book aims to examine this debate, laying out the lines of disagreement and continuing tensions. Through a critical examination of the work of Donald MacKinnon and the eminent Christian thinker Rowan Williams, the book aims to show that there is a path for reconciling the claims of Christian orthodoxy and the experience of tragedy, one that is able to maintain a metaphysical foundation for both real transcendence and unfolding historicity, without denying either.

Author : Jonathan N. Badger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780415625623

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Sophocles and the Politics of Tragedy by Jonathan N. Badger Pdf

Focuses on Sophocles' dramatization of fundamental political impasses and applies these to the competing political theories of Thomas, Bacon and Locke.

Author : Jonathan N. Badger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781136244599

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Sophocles and the Politics of Tragedy by Jonathan N. Badger Pdf

Sophocles and the Politics of Tragedy is an inquiry into a fundamental political problem made visible through the tragic poetry of Sophocles. In part I Badger offers a detailed exegesis of three plays: Ajax, Antigone, and Philoctetes. These plays share a common theme, illuminating a persistent feature of political life, namely the antagonism between the heroic commitment to the beautiful and the transcendent on the one hand, and the community’s need for bodily safety and material security on the other. This conceptual structure not only helps us understand these plays but also establishes a distinctive vision of the tragic dimension of political life—a vision that can be applied fruitfully to examinations of political projects quite distant from the world of fifth-century Athens. Such an application is the aim of part II, in which Badger coordinates the results of the inquiries of part I and applies them to a consideration of the competing claims of three strands of medieval and early modern political philosophy: ecclesiastical rule, scientific domination, and liberal government. Badger identifies the last of these—early modern liberalism—as a "tragic politics" that seeks to sustain and contain the tension between transcendent longing and material need.

Author : David P. Nichols
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781498580007

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Transcendence and Film by David P. Nichols Pdf

In this book, ten experts in philosophy of film explore the importance of transcendence for cinema as an art form in the films of the great directors, David Cronenberg, Karl Theodor Dreyer, Federico Fellini, Werner Herzog, Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, Terrence Malick, Yasujiro Ozu, and Martin Scorsese.

Author : Rodney Perkins,Forrest Jackson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Cults
ISBN : 0965951219

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Cosmic Suicide by Rodney Perkins,Forrest Jackson Pdf

Author : Drew A. Hyland
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791425096

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Finitude and Transcendence in the Platonic Dialogues by Drew A. Hyland Pdf

This book explains how to read Plato, emphasizing the philosophic importance of the dramatic aspects of the dialogues, and showing that Plato is an ironic thinker and that his irony is deeply rooted in his philosophy.

Author : Kevin Taylor,Giles Waller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317166603

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Christian Theology and Tragedy by Kevin Taylor,Giles Waller Pdf

Drawing together leading scholars from both theological and literary backgrounds, Christian Theology and Tragedy explores the rich variety of conversations between theology and tragedy. Three main areas are examined: theological readings of a range of tragic literature, from plays to novels and the Bible itself; how theologians have explored tragedy theologically; and how theology can interact with various tragic theories. Encompassing a range of perspectives and topics, this book demonstrates how theologians can make productive use of the work of tragedians, tragic theorists and tragic philosophers. Common misconceptions - that tragedy is monolithic, easily definable, or gives straightforward answers to theodicy - are also addressed. Interdisciplinary in nature, this book will appeal to both the theological and literary fields.

Author : Richard Wagamese
Publisher : D & M Publishers
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781553659709

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Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese Pdf

"An unforgettable work of art."—The National Post Saul Indian Horse is dying. Tucked away in a hospice high above the clash and clang of a big city, he embarks on a marvellous journey of imagination back through the life he led as a northern Ojibway, with all its sorrows and joys. With compassion and insight, author Richard Wagamese traces through his fictional characters the decline of a culture and a cultural way. For Saul, taken forcibly from the land and his family when he's sent to residential school, salvation comes for a while through his incredible gifts as a hockey player. But in the harsh realities of 1960s Canada, he battles obdurate racism and the spirit-destroying effects of cultural alienation and displacement. Indian Horse unfolds against the bleak loveliness of northern Ontario, all rock, marsh, bog and cedar. Wagamese writes with a spare beauty, penetrating the heart of a remarkable Ojibway man. Drawing on his great-grandfather's mystical gift of vision, Saul Indian Horse comes to recognize the influence of everyday magic on his own life. In this wise and moving novel, Richard Wagamese shares that gift of magic with readers as well.

Author : Yaa Gyasi
Publisher : Bond Street Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385695183

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Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK! • Finalist for the WOMEN'S PRIZE Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama. Gifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford University School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after an ankle injury left him hooked on OxyContin. Her suicidal mother is living in her bed. Gifty is determined to discover the scientific basis for the suffering she sees all around her. But even as she turns to the hard sciences to unlock the mystery of her family's loss, she finds herself hungering for her childhood faith and grappling with the evangelical church in which she was raised, whose promise of salvation remains as tantalizing as it is elusive. Transcendent Kingdom is a deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief—a novel about faith, science, religion, love. Exquisitely written, emotionally searing, this is an exceptionally powerful follow-up to Gyasi's phenomenal debut.

Author : Férdia J. Stone-Davis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317092230

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Music and Transcendence by Férdia J. Stone-Davis Pdf

Music and Transcendence explores the ways in which music relates to transcendence by bringing together the disciplines of musicology, philosophy and theology, thereby uncovering congruencies between them that have often been obscured. Music has the capacity to take one outside of oneself and place one in relation to that which is ’other’. This ’other’ can be conceived in an ’absolute’ sense, insofar as music can be thought to place the self in relation to a divine ’other’ beyond the human frame of existence. However, the ’other’ can equally well be conceived in an ’immanent’ (or secular) sense, as music is a human activity that relates to other cultural practices. Music here places the self in relation to other people and to the world more generally, shaping how the world is understood, without any reference to a God or gods. The book examines how music has not only played a significant role in many philosophical and theological accounts of the nature of existence and the self, but also provides a valuable resource for the creation of meaning on a day-to-day basis.

Author : Kevin Taylor,Giles Waller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317166597

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Christian Theology and Tragedy by Kevin Taylor,Giles Waller Pdf

Drawing together leading scholars from both theological and literary backgrounds, Christian Theology and Tragedy explores the rich variety of conversations between theology and tragedy. Three main areas are examined: theological readings of a range of tragic literature, from plays to novels and the Bible itself; how theologians have explored tragedy theologically; and how theology can interact with various tragic theories. Encompassing a range of perspectives and topics, this book demonstrates how theologians can make productive use of the work of tragedians, tragic theorists and tragic philosophers. Common misconceptions - that tragedy is monolithic, easily definable, or gives straightforward answers to theodicy - are also addressed. Interdisciplinary in nature, this book will appeal to both the theological and literary fields.

Author : Jeremy Begbie
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467449397

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Redeeming Transcendence in the Arts by Jeremy Begbie Pdf

How can the arts witness to the transcendence of the Christian God? Many people believe that there is something transcendent about the arts, that they can awaken a profound sense of awe, wonder, and mystery, of something “beyond” this world—even for those who may have no use for conventional forms of Christianity. In this book Jeremy Begbie—a leading voice on theology and the arts—employs a biblical, Trinitarian imagination to show how Christian involvement in the arts can be shaped by the distinctive vision of God’s transcendence opened up in and through Jesus Christ.

Author : Louis Roy
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725272750

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The Feeling of Transcendence, an Experience of God? by Louis Roy Pdf

In this book, Louis Roy takes account of the fact that, in the last fifty years, numerous people in the secularized West have responded yes to surveys that asked, "Are you aware of having had an experience during which you felt in the presence of a dimension or a reality very different from ordinary human life?" Are such experiences mere illusions? Some thinkers, like Feuerbach and Freud, believed so. Are such experiences encounters with God? Karl Barth, a great Protestant theologian, did not think much of their worth. On this issue, psychologists and theologians are divided. Roy argues that those experiences are valid, that they possess a real potential, and that they can open their recipients to a genuine wisdom. He reports on eight narratives, spells out their constitutive elements, classifies them into four categories--aesthetic, ontological, ethical, and interpersonal--and suggests criteria to assess their concrete authenticity. Thus, this book will appeal to educated readers interested in spirituality, philosophy of religion, psychology, literature, theology, and pastoral ministry.

Author : Regina Schwartz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135886646

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Transcendence by Regina Schwartz Pdf

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.