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Fragmentation and Memory - Meditations on Christian Doctrine (Paperback, New)
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Fragmentation and Memory - Meditations on Christian Doctrine (Paperback, New)
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Philosophers have long and skeptically viewed religion as a source
of overeasy answers, with a singular, totalizing "God" and the
comfort of an immortal soul being the greatest among them. But
religious thought has always been more interesting-indeed, a rich
source of endlessly unfolding questions. With questions from the
1885 Baltimore Catechism of the Catholic Church as the starting
point for each chapter, Karmen MacKendrick offers postmodern
reflections on many of the central doctrines of the Church: the
oneness of God, original sin, forgiveness, love and its connection
to mortality, reverence for the relics of saints, and the doctrine
of bodily resurrection. She maintains that we begin and end in
questions and not in answers, in fragments and not in
totalities-more precisely, in a fragmentation paradoxically
integral to wholeness. Taking seriously Augustine's idea that we
find the divine in memory, MacKendrick argues that memory does not
lead us back in time to a tidy answer but opens onto a complicated
and fragmented time in which we find that the one and the many,
before and after and now, even sacred and profane are complexly
entangled. Time becomes something lived, corporeal, and sacred,
with fragments of eternity interspersed among the stretches of its
duration. Our sense of ourselves is correspondingly complex,
because theological considerations lead us not to the security of
an everlasting, indivisible soul dwelling comfortably in the
presence of a paternal deity but to a more complicated, perpetually
peculiar, and paradoxical life in the flesh. Written out of
MacKendrick's extensive background in both recent and late-ancient
philosophy, this moving and poetic book can also be an inspiration
to anyone, scholar or lay reader, seeking to find contemporary
significance in these ancient theological doctrines.
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