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The Guide to Gethsemane - Anxiety, Suffering, Death (Paperback)
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The Guide to Gethsemane - Anxiety, Suffering, Death (Paperback)
Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
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Anxiety, suffering and death are not simply the “ills” of our
society, nor are they uniquely the product of a sick and sinful
humanity. We must all some day confront them, and we continually
face their implications long before we do. In that sense, the
Garden of Gethsemane is not merely a garden “outside the walls”
of Jerusalem but also the essential horizon for all of us, whether
we are believers or not. Emmanuel Falque explores, with no small
measure of doubt, Heidegger’s famous statement that by virtue of
Christianity’s claims of salvation and the afterlife, its
believers cannot authentically experience anxiety in the face of
death. In this theological development of the Passion, already
widely debated upon its publication in French, Falque places a
radical emphasis on the physicality and corporeality of Christ’s
suffering and death, marking the continuities between Christ’s
Passion and our own orientation to the mortality of our bodies.
Beginning with an elaborate reading of the divine and human bodies
whose suffering is masterfully depicted in the Isenheim Altarpiece,
and written in the wake of the death of a close friend, Falques’s
study is both theologically rigorous and marked by deeply human
concerns. Falque is at unusual pains to elaborate the question of
death in terms not merely of faith, but of a “credible
Christianity” that remains meaningful to non-Christians, holding,
with Maurice Blondel, that “the important thing is not to address
believers but to say something which counts in the eyes of
unbelievers.” His account is therefore as much a work of
philosophy as of theology—and of philosophy explicated not
through abstractions but through familiar and ordinary experience.
Theology’s task, for Falque, is to understand that human problems
of the meaning of existence apply even to Christ, at least insofar
as he lives in and shares our finitude. In Falque’s remarkable
account, Christ takes upon himself the burden of suffering
finitude, so that he can undertake a passage through it, or a
transformation of it. This book, a key text from one the most
remarkable of a younger generation of philosophers and theologians,
will be widely read and debated by all who hold that theology and
philosophy has the most to offer when it eschews easy answers and
takes seriously our most anguishing human experiences.
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