Marika Rose

A Theology of Failure

¿i¿ek against Christian Innocence

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Produktbeschreibung

This book draws the work of Slavoj Zizek into conversation with the Christian mystical theological tradition in order to propose a materialist account of Christian identity as constituted by failure.

Produktdetails

• Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 424g
• ISBN-13: 9780823284061
• ISBN-10: 0823284069
• Artikelnr.: 53541238

Autorenporträt

Dr Marika Rose is Senior Lecturer in Philosophical Theology at the University of Winchester. She is a trustee of Greenbelt, one of the UK's largest Christian festivals, and is a regular contributor to The Daily Service on BBC Radio 4 longwave. Her first book, A Theology of Failure: ¿i¿ek Against Christian Innocence was published by Fordham University Press in 2019.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Failing 1
1 Ontology and Desire in Dionysius the Areopagite 15
2 Apophatic Theology and Its Vicissitudes 29
3 The Death Drive: From Freud to iek 56
4 The Gift and Violence 86
5 Divine Violence as Trauma 119
6 Mystical Theology and the Four Discourses 150
Conclusion: Theology as Failure 175
Acknowledgments 183
Notes 185
Bibliography 235
Index 251