After Writing: On the Liturgical Cosummation of Philosophy / Edition 1

After Writing: On the Liturgical Cosummation of Philosophy / Edition 1

by Catherine Pickstock
ISBN-10:
0631206728
ISBN-13:
9780631206729
Pub. Date:
12/29/1997
Publisher:
Wiley
ISBN-10:
0631206728
ISBN-13:
9780631206729
Pub. Date:
12/29/1997
Publisher:
Wiley
After Writing: On the Liturgical Cosummation of Philosophy / Edition 1

After Writing: On the Liturgical Cosummation of Philosophy / Edition 1

by Catherine Pickstock

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Overview

After Writing provides a significant contribution to the growing genre of works which offers a challenge to modern and postmodern accounts of Christianity.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780631206729
Publisher: Wiley
Publication date: 12/29/1997
Series: Challenges in Contemporary Theology
Pages: 320
Product dimensions: 6.08(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.91(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Catherine Pickstock is a Research Fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Table of Contents

Part I: The Polity of Death:.

1. Socrates Goes Outside the City: Writing and Exteriority.

2. Spatialization: The Middle of Modernity.

3. Signs of Death. Transition: "Can My Eating Slake Your Hunger": The Evacuation of Liturgy.

Part II: The Sacred Polis:.

4. I Will Go Unto the Altar of God: The Impossible Liturgy.

5. Seraphic Voices: The Space of Doxology.

6. The Resurrection of the Sign.

Conclusion.

Index.

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