The Disincarnate Text: Ritual Poetics in Herbert, Paul, Williams, and Levinas

This Introduction to a special issue on “The Sacramental Text Reconsidered” provides a brief genealogy of the practice of describing texts, performances, and poetics as sacramental, eucharistic, and incarnational. It also offers a critique and clarification of such reading practices by differentiati...

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Published in:Christianity & literature
Main Author: Smith, Matthew (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Johns Hopkins University Press [2017]
In: Christianity & literature
IxTheo Classification:CD Christianity and Culture
KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history
KDE Anglican Church
NBP Sacramentology; sacraments
Further subjects:B Herbert, George, 1593-1633
B Incarnation
B George Herbert
B Eucharist
B disincarnate
B Lord's Supper Sacrifice
B Sacrament
B Sacraments
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Summary:This Introduction to a special issue on “The Sacramental Text Reconsidered” provides a brief genealogy of the practice of describing texts, performances, and poetics as sacramental, eucharistic, and incarnational. It also offers a critique and clarification of such reading practices by differentiating between the real divine presence theologically understood to dwell in a proper sacrament and the “disincarnation” enacted by sacramentally laden literary texts and performances. Drawing on the writings of Emmanuel Levinas, Rowan Williams, and St. Paul, I demonstrate the disincarnate as a poetic of ritual and oblation in an extended reading of Herbert’s poetry.
ISSN:2056-5666
Contains:Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0148333117703987