Teach Us to Care
How might a Christian poetics of care open up new ground for formations of Christianity more attuned to material care for others, including nonhuman animals and the world? I argue that the openness afforded by a Christian poesis, where one is free to form various ways of being Christian through the...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2022
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Christianity & literature
Year: 2022, Volume: 71, Issue: 4, Pages: 484-494 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture NCC Social ethics NCD Political ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Literary Studies
B Christian poetics B Neoliberalism B Care |
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| Summary: | How might a Christian poetics of care open up new ground for formations of Christianity more attuned to material care for others, including nonhuman animals and the world? I argue that the openness afforded by a Christian poesis, where one is free to form various ways of being Christian through the aesthetic acts of unmaking, remaking, and making, unbeholden to a narrow presumption of authorized "truth," offers the chance to create variations of and on the Christian, variations that should be finally evaluated by the care they create in and for the world. Because some parts of the Christian past and some parts of the profession of literary studies have been and continue to be so careless, I suggest that such a Christian poetics might help shift Christianity and literary studies into more caring forms of being in the world and the academy. |
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| ISSN: | 2056-5666 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/chy.2022.0049 |