Grammars of resurrection :a Christian theology of presence and absence /Brian D. Robinette.

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Community of Christ Library

Name/Title

Grammars of resurrection :a Christian theology of presence and absence /Brian D. Robinette.

Description

Introduction -- A generative opening -- The resurrection and Christian grammar -- Resurrecting resurrection : problems and prospects -- Gift, hospitality, and the body -- The ecclesial presupposition for resurrection belief -- Conditions of the possibility -- The historical aporia -- The eschatological imperative -- Three approaches to the resurrection -- History in excess -- The im-possible gift -- The resurrection as "saturated phenomenon" -- Bodies in absentia -- The scandal of the empty tomb -- A claim upon the world -- Bodily resurrection and late antiquity -- The body as "thing" and modernity's "disengaged self" -- The absent body -- The othered self -- I will be my body -- A profounder materialism -- The corporeality of grace -- I will be my body -- Introduction: Grammars of resurrection -- On avoiding grammatical absolutism in Christian theology -- The resurrection proclaimed -- Suffering, memoria, and vindication : retrieving the apocalyptic imagination -- Retrieving the apocalyptic imagination -- Time, memoria, and justice -- Transfiguring the victim -- A view from the victims -- Transfiguring the victim -- Mimesis, scapegoating, and the crucified -- The Bible and violence -- Desire, mimesis, and scapegoat violence -- Unveiling scapegoat violence -- The gift of the forgiving victim -- Resurrection as reconciliation -- Christus Victor revisited -- The grammar of fulfillment and Christology -- "I am the Resurrection and the life" : manifestation and presence in the Fourth Gospel -- Resurrection and Christology -- Original peace, divinization, and beauty of form -- Original peace : creation in retrospect -- Transcendence, form, and beauty -- The eternal significance of Jesus' humanity : the heart of Christian spirituality -- The beauty and comfort of the resurrection. x, 444 p. ;24 cm.

Book Details

Author

Robinette, Brian DuWayne.

Place Published

City

New York

Date Published

circa 2009

Publication Subjects

Jesus Christ--Resurrection.

Call No.

BT482 .R63 2009

ISBN

9780824525637 (alk. paper), 0824525639 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2009043961

Notes

Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.