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Critical Theory and Early Christianity

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-10-30
Mått156 x 234 x 25 mm
Vikt619 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies in Ancient Religion and Culture
Antal sidor404
FörlagEquinox Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781781794135

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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.

Contents Preface: Dialectical Images and Critical Theory vii 1. Introduction: Making Early Christian Texts Strange (Again) 1 Matthew G. Whitlock PART I: WALTER BENJAMIN 2. Walter Benjamin and Early Christian Texts 35Matthew G. Whitlock 3. Reading, Libraries, and Urban Change in the Shadow of Capitalism and Apocalypse: Reading Walter Benjamin and John of Patmos 50 Robert Paul Seesengood 4. “On the Concept of History”: St. Augustine and Walter Benjamin 66 Carl A. Levenson PART II: GILLES DELEUZE 5. Gilles Deleuze and Early Christian Texts 99 Matthew G. Whitlock 6. The Deleuzioguattarian Body of Christ without Organs 127Bradley H. McLean 7. The Many Acts of the Apostles: Simulacra and Simulation 147 Matthew G. Whitlock and Philip L. Tite 8. Face-ing the Nations: Becoming a Majority Empire of God Reterritorialization, Language, and Imperial Racism in Revelation 7.9-17 184 Sharon Jacob PART III: ALAIN BADIOU 9. Alain Badiou and Early Christian Texts 213 Matthew G. Whitlock 10. Christianity Appears First, as Itself 236 Bruce Worthington 11. Towards a Vulgar Marxist Reading of Christian Origins Today 252 James Crossley 12. Recapitulating the Event: Reading Irenaeus with Badiou 268 Hollis Phelps PART IV: JUDITH BUTLER 13. Judith Butler and Early Christian Texts 295 Matthew G. Whitlock 14. Paul Exposed: Reading Galatians with Judith Butler 314 Valérie Nicolet15. Mattering Bodies: Animacy and Justice in Origen’s On First Principles 350 Peter Anthony Mena Index of Biblical References 367 Index of Classical References and Authors 371 Index of Early Christian Writings 372Index of Jewish Writings 374 Index of Modern Authors 375 Index of Subjects 380

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