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Visions and Faces of the Tragic - The Mimesis of Tragedy and the Folly of Salvation in Early Christian Literature (Hardcover)
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Visions and Faces of the Tragic - The Mimesis of Tragedy and the Folly of Salvation in Early Christian Literature (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Early Christian Studies
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Despite the pervasive early Christian repudiation of pagan
theatrical art, especially prior to Constantine, this monograph
demonstrates the increasing attention of late-ancient Christian
authors to the genre of tragedy as a basis to explore the
complexities of human finitude, suffering, and mortality in
relation to the wisdom, justice, and providence of God. The book
argues that various Christian writers, particularly in the
post-Constantinian era, were keenly devoted to the mimesis, or
imaginative re-presentation, of the tragic dimension of creaturely
existence more than with simply mimicking the poetics of the
classical Greek and Roman tragedians. It analyses a whole array of
hermeneutical, literary, and rhetorical manifestations of "tragical
mimesis" in early Christian writing, which, capitalizing on the
elements of tragedy already perceptible in biblical revelation,
aspired to deepen and edify Christian engagement with multiform
evil and with the extreme vicissitudes of historical existence.
Early Christian tragical mimetics included not only interpreting
(and often amplifying) the Bible's own tragedies for contemporary
audiences, but also developing models of the Christian self as a
tragic self, revamping the Christian moral conscience as a tragical
conscience, and cultivating a distinctively Christian tragical
pathos. The study culminates in an extended consideration of the
theological intelligence and accountability of "tragical vision"
and tragical mimesis in early Christian literary culture, and the
unique role of the theological virtue of hope in its repertoire of
tragical emotions.
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