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Informationen zum Autor Emmanuel Falque is Honorary Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at the Catholic University of Paris. His most recent book in English is The Wedding Feast of the Lamb: Eros, the Body, and the Eucharist. Klappentext ¿In this dramatic opening to his triptych on Christ¿s passion, Emmanuel Falque demonstrates¿once again¿his complete refusal to rest with easy answers. Christ, he argues, experiences anxiety and suffering that are just as real and confusing as that of any ordinary person. The result is that God does not suffer at some comfortable distance but right here in our midst. One can hardly read this book without being deeply moved.¿¿Bruce Ellis Benson, author of Liturgy as a Way of Life 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. Doubtful of Heidegger¿s famous statement that the notion of salvation renders Christians unable authentically to experience anxiety in the face of death, Falque explores the Passion with a radical emphasis on the physicality and corporeality of Christ¿s suffering and death, and on continuities with the mortality of our bodies. 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 pains to elaborate the question of death in terms not of faith, but of a ¿credible Christianity¿ that remains meaningful to nonbelievers. 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. Emmanuel Falque is Honorary Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at the Catholic University of Paris. George Hughes has served as Professor in the Faculty of Letters at the University of Tokyo. Inhaltsverzeichnis Translator's Note xiii Preface to the English-Language Edition xv Opening : The Isenheim Altarpiece or "The Taking on Board of Suffering" xvii Introduction : Shifting Understandings of Anxiety 1 PART I: THE FACE-TO-FACE OF FINITUDE 1 From the Burden of Death to Flight before Death 7 §1 The Burden of Death, 7 ¿ §2 Fleeing from Death, 8 2 The Face of Death or Anxiety over Finitude 10 §3 Death "for Us" Humans, 10 ¿ §4 Genesis and Its Symbolism, 11 ¿ §5 The Mask of Perfection, 12 ¿ §6 The Image of Finitude in Man, 13 ¿ §7 Finitude: Finite and Infinite, 16 ¿ §8 Finitude and Anxiety, 16 ¿ §9 The Eclipse of Finitude, 17 ¿ §10 The Face of Death, 18 ¿ §11 To Die "with," 19 3 The Temptation of Despair or Anxiety over Sin 22 §13 Inevitable Death, 22 ¿ §14 The Conquest of Sin, 22 ¿ §15 Sin and Anxiety, 23 ¿ §16 The Temptation of Despair, 24 4 From the Affirmation of Meaninglessness to the Suspension of Meaning 26 §17 The Life Sentence, 26 ¿ §18 The Christian Witness, 27 ¿ §19 Meaninglessness and the Suspension of Meaning, 27 PART II: CHRIST FACED WITH ANXIETY OVER DEATH §20 Two Meditations on Death, 29 ¿ §21 Alarm and Anxiety, 31 5 The Fear of Dying and Christ's "Alarm" 33 §22 Taking on Fear and Abandonment, 33 ¿ §23 The Cup, S...
