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Theology Beyond Metaphysics

by Anthony Bartlett
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781725264182
  • Binding: Paperback
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  • Publisher: Cascade Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Cascade Books
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  • Pages: 218
  • Original Price: USD 29.0
  • Language: English
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  • Item Weight: 327 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Christian Theology / Ethics & Moral Teaching, Language, and Biblical Studies / Exegesis & Hermeneutics

A theory of human origins that is one-half Charles Darwin and one-half Cain and Abel is bound to entail a lot of rethinking of traditional themes. Rene Girard's thesis of original human violence and the Bible's power to reveal it has been around for more than a generation, but its consequences for Christian theology are still only slowly being unpacked. Anthony Bartlett's book makes a signal contribution, representing an astonishing leap forward in understanding what a biblical disclosure of founding violence means for Christian thought and life. If human language arose directly out of the primal experience of murder, then semiotics becomes a core area for theological examination. Tracing the discipline of semiotics through postmodern thinkers, then back through its birth in the Latin era, Bartlett shows how Girard's thought is itself a semiotic emergence, beyond standard Christian metaphysics. Above all, Girardian theory of human signs demands we see the generative impact of violence in our language and thought, and then, conversely, that the Word of God, crucified without retaliation and risen in the same identity, brings a totally new sign and relation into history, offering a thoroughgoing transformation of human life and meaning.

Bartlett, Anthony: - Born in 1946 and brought up in Portsmouth, England, Anthony Bartlett studied at Heythrop College, Oxford and London, and then in Rome. After resigning the Catholic priesthood, he ran a homeless shelter in London's East End. In 1993 he emigrated to the U.S. with his family, gaining his Ph.D. at Syracuse University in 1999. He has three children and four grandchildren, and with his wife, Linda, leads the Bethany Center for Nonviolent Theology and Spirituality.

Cowdell, Scott: - Scott Cowdell is an associate professor at Charles Sturt University, Australia and holds a research fellowship in public and contextual theology. An Anglican priest, he is Canon Theologian of the Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn.

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