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Christ the Tragedy of God: A Theological Exploration of Tragedy

by Kevin Taylor
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781138092143
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 156
  • Original Price: GBP 171.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 378 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Christianity / Literature & the Arts, Biblical Studies / New Testament / Jesus, the Gospels & Acts, and Christian Theology / Christology

Tragedy is a genre for exploring loss and suffering, and this book traces the vital areas where tragedy has shaped and been a resource for Christian theology. There is a history to the relationship of theology and tragedy; tragic literature has explored areas of theological interest, and is present in the Bible and ongoing theological concerns. Christian theology has a long history of using what is at hand, and the genre of tragedy is no different.

What are the merits and challenges of placing the central narrative of the passion, death and resurrection of Christ in tragic terms? This study examines important and shared concerns of theology and tragedy: sacrifice and war, rationality and order, historical contingency, blindness, guilt, and self-awareness. Theologians such as Reinhold Niebuhr, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Martin Luther King Jr., Simone Weil, and Boethius have explored tragedy as a theological resource. The historical relationship of theology and tragedy reveals that neither is monolithic, and both remain diverse and unstable areas of human thought.

This fascinating book will be of keen interest to theologians, as well as scholars in the fields of literary studies and tragic theory.

Kevin Taylor is an associate professor in the Department of Religion and Practical Theology at Pfeiffer University, USA. His publications include co-editing Christian Theology and Tragedy (Ashgate, 2011), and Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Question of Tragedy in the Novels of Thomas Hardy (T&T Clark, 2013).

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