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...
Veröffentlicht in: | Christianity & literature |
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Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
[2017]
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Christianity & literature
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IxTheo Notationen: | CD Christentum und Kultur KAH Kirchengeschichte 1648-1913; Neuzeit KDE Anglikanische Kirche NBP Sakramentenlehre; Sakramente |
weitere Schlagwörter: | 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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Zusammenfassung: | 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. |
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ISSN: | 2056-5666 |
Enthält: | Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0148333117703987 |