Kierkegaard and the staging of desire : rhetoric and performance in a theology of eros /
Theology in the modern era often assumes that the consummate form of theological discourse is objective prose - ignoring or condemning apophatic traditions and the spiritual eros that drives them. For too long, Kierkegaard has been read along these lines as a progenitor of twentieth-century neo-orth...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2014.
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Summary: | Theology in the modern era often assumes that the consummate form of theological discourse is objective prose - ignoring or condemning apophatic traditions and the spiritual eros that drives them. For too long, Kierkegaard has been read along these lines as a progenitor of twentieth-century neo-orthodoxy and a stern critic of the erotic in all its forms. In contrast, Hughes argues that Kierkegaard envisions faith fundamentally as a form of infinite, insatiable eros. |
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Item Description: | Books at JSTOR Evidence Based Acquisitions Project MUSE Universal EBA Ebooks |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (271 pages) |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780823257287 0823257282 9780823257263 0823257266 9780823261505 0823261506 |