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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Main Author: Hughes, Carl S. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Prologue: Theology and Fairy Tales; Introduction: Staging Desire, with Constant Reference to The Concept of Irony; 1. Desiring "The One"- in Vaudev ille, Marriage, and Beyond; 2. Vor Frue Kirke as Stage: Aesthetics and Desire in Liturgy and Sacrament; 3. "The Woman Who Was a Sinner": A New Statue in Vor Frue Kirke; 4. Theatrical and Eucharistic Transformations: From the Farce Theater to the Feet of Christ; 5. Sacramental Writing, Sacramental Living: Eros in Existence; Epilogue: Renewing Theology- Kierkegaard beyond Barth; Notes.
  • Works CitedIllustration Credits; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z.