RT Article
T1 The Disincarnate Text: Ritual Poetics in Herbert, Paul, Williams, and Levinas
JF Christianity & literature
VO 66
IS 3
SP 363
OP 384
A1 Smith, Matthew
LA English
PB Johns Hopkins University Press
YR 2017
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/156405621X
AB 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.
K1 disincarnate
K1 Eucharist
K1 George Herbert
K1 Herbert, George, 1593-1633
K1 Incarnation
K1 Lord's Supper : Sacrifice
K1 Sacrament
K1 Sacraments
DO 10.1177/0148333117703987