Christ the Tragedy of God

Kevin Taylor is an associate professor in the Department of Religion and Practical Theology at Pfeiffer University, USA. His publications include co-editing Christian Theology and Tragedy (Ashgate, 2011), and Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Question of Tragedy in the Novels of Thomas Hardy (T&T Clark, 2013).

• 1 The Question of Tragedy 2 The Bible and Tragedy 3 Apollo and Rational Coherence 4 Prometheus and the Economics of Sacrifice 5 Philoctetes, Contingency, and Being Onstage 6 Oedipus, the Novel, and Guilt 7 Dionysus and Perception

"For him [Kevin Taylor], tragic literature reveals fundamental structures of human life and experience that inevitably affect the shape of God’s work within creation. Incarnation is already God’s participation in tragedy - long before Christ undergoes his passion - and the communication of the Christian faith across subsequent centuries remains mired in tragic ambiguity. This theological thesis drives the text from start to finish, and it’s a thesis worth engaging."- Janna Gonwa, Yale University, Reading Religion"Incarnation is already God’s participation in tragedy—long before Christ undergoes his passion—and the communication of the Christian faith across subsequent centuries remains mired in tragic ambiguity. This theological thesis drives the text from start to finish, and it’s a thesis worth engaging." Janna Gonwa, Reading Religion