|
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism
|
Buy Now
St. Matthew Passion (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R1,047
Discovery Miles 10 470
|
|
|
St. Matthew Passion (Hardcover)
Series: signale|TRANSFER: German Thought in Translation
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
St. Matthew Passion is Hans Blumenberg's sustained and devastating
meditation on Jesus's anguished cry on the cross, "My God, my God,
why have you forsaken me?" Why did this abandonment happen, what
does it mean within the logic of the Gospels, how have believers
and nonbelievers understood it, and how does it live on in art?
With rare philological acuity and vast historical learning,
Blumenberg unfolds context upon context in which this cry has
reverberated, from early Christian apologetics and heretics to
twentieth-century literature and philosophy. Blumenberg's guide
through this unending story of divine abandonment is Johann
Sebastian Bach's monumental Matthauspassion, the parabolic mirror
that bundled eighteen hundred years of reflection on the fate of
the crucified and the only available medium that allows us
post-Christian listeners to feel the anguish of those who witnessed
the events of the Passion. With interspersed references to writers
such as Goethe, Rilke, Kafka, Freud, and Benjamin, Blumenberg
gathers evidence to raise the singular question that, in his view,
Christian theology has not been able to answer: How can an
omnipotent God be so offended by his creatures that he must
sacrifice and abandon his own Son?
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
(2)
(1)
