Visions and Faces of the Tragic - The Mimesis of Tragedy Folly of Salvation in Early Christian

This study presses beyond the pervasive early Christian aversion to pagan theatrical art in all its forms and investigates the growing critical engagement with the genre of tragedy by Christian authors, especially in the post-Constantinian era.

List of contents

• Preface and Acknowledgments


• Abbreviations


• 1: Introduction - Excavating Tragical Perspectives in Early Christianity: Trajectories of Inquiry and Interpretive Challenges


• 2: Tragical Mimesis and Biblical Interpretation I: Primitive Tragedies in Genesis


• 3: Tragical Mimesis and Biblical Interpretation II: Exposing and Expounding the Tragic in Sacred History


• 4: The Tragic Christian Self: Three Late-Ancient Profiles


• 5: Tragical Conscience: Contemplating the Faces and Bodies of Tragedy in the Foreground of the Church


• 6: Tragical Pathos: The Expanding Christian Repertoire of Tragical Emotions


• 7: The Theological Scope of Early Christian Tragical Vision


• Epilogue: Hope and the Christian Tragical Pathos


• Select Bibliography

About the author

Paul M. Blowers (Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 1988) is a scholar of early Christianity and patristics, and since 1989 has taught church history and historical theology at the Emmanuel Christian Seminary, Milligan College, Tennessee

Summary

This study presses beyond the pervasive early Christian aversion to pagan theatrical art in all its forms and investigates the growing critical engagement with the genre of tragedy by Christian authors, especially in the post-Constantinian era.

Additional text

This engaging and insightful analysis of tragedy in relation to early Christian literature provides a timely intervention within a flourishing area of scholarly interest.

Product details

• Authors: Paul M. Blowers, Paul M. (Dean E. Walker Professor of Chur Blowers, Blowers Paul M.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.06.2020
• EAN: 9780198854104
• ISBN: 978-0-19-885410-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Oxford Early Christian Studies
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christianity / Literature & the Arts, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, History of Religion, Church history, Christian spirituality & religious experience, Spirituality and religious experience, RELIGION / Christian Living / Spiritual Growth, The Early Church