
Writing Faith
Timothy Stanley(Author)
Fortress Press,U.S.
Published on 1. February 2017
Book
Hardback
154 pages
978-1-5064-2338-8 (ISBN)
Description
In Writing Faith, Timothy Stanley provides a novel reevaluation of Jacques Derrida's deconstructive account of writing. Derrida's various essays on writing's materiality in books, scrolls, typewriters and digital displays, briefly touched on the question of religion. At times he directed his attention to the mediatic nature of Christianity. However, such comments have rarely been applied to formal aspects of religious texts. In response, this book investigates the rise of the Christian codex in its second-to-fifth-century-CE Jewish and Greco-Roman contexts. By better understanding the religious nature of this technical development, it becomes possible to reframe writing's coincidence with faith. - from publisher.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Augsburg Fortress Publishers
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Laminated cover
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
379 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5064-2338-8 (9781506423388)
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