Charred Root of Meaning
Continuity, Transgression, and the Other in Christian Tradition
Published on 24. July 2018
191 pages
978-1-4674-5061-4 (ISBN)
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Ecologists tell us that periodic wildfires, though devastating, are necessary to the rhythm of nature. The death of the old allows something new to grow, sometimes straight back from the charred roots. Christian tradition functions much the same way, says Philipp Rosemann. In this book he examines how transgression and destruction are crucial in the foundation and preservation of tradition.Theories of tradition have emphasized the handing-down of identity rather than continuity through difference. Rosemann shows that divine revelation occurs as an irruption that challenges the existing order. The preservation of tradition, he argues, requires that this challenge be periodically repeated. Offering a historical, theological, and philosophical approach to Christian tradition, Charred Root of Meaning shows how transgression and reformation keep the Christian faith alive.
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Philipp W. Rosemann
Charred Root of Meaning
Continuity, Transgression, and the Other in Christian Tradition
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William B Eerdmans Publishing Co
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Series Preface
- Foreword by John Milbank
- Preface
- Introduction: Break on through (to the Other Side)
- The Other in the Christian Tradition
- Transgression
- Foucault's Nietzschean Roots
- Foucault's Critique of Kant
- Return to Transgression
- 1: The Irruption of the Divine
- The Mount Sinai Narrative
- Pseudo-Dionysius on the Mystical Ascent
- The Pseudo-Peter of Poitiers Gloss
- 2: The Incarnate God as the New Moses
- The New Moses
- "I Am Not Come to Destroy . . ."
- The Incident at Antioch
- 3: The Christian Tradition in the Pagan World
- The Foolishness of the Cross
- A New Socrates
- The Spoils of Egypt
- A First Summary
- 4: The Unfolding of the Christian Tradition
- Another Dionysius
- Reading Denys the Carthusian with Alasdair MacIntyre
- From Pillaging to Translation
- 5: Folding Back the Tradition
- The Lord of Song
- Tradition between Memory and Forgetting
- The Remedy for Forgetting: Destruction
- From Destructio to Destruktion
- 6: A Genealogy of Transgression
- The Genesis Narrative of the Ur-Transgression
- Kant's Transvaluation of the Ur-Transgression
- Transgressive Images, Medieval and Contemporary
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Excerpts from the Pseudo-Poitiers Gloss and from Denys the Carthusian's Sentences Commentary
- Bibliography
- Index of Subjects and Names
- Index of Scripture
