Dionysus, Christ, and the Death of God, Volume 2: Christianity and Modernity Volume 2

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-61186-357-4
Verlag: Michigan State University Press

Buch, Englisch, 588 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 764 g

Reihe: Studies in Violence, Mimesis &

This magisterial reflection on the history and destiny of the West compares Greco-Roman civilization and the Judeo-Christian tradition in order to understand what both unites and divides them.

Mediation, understood as a collective, symbolic experience, gives society unity and meaning, putting human beings in contact with a universal object known as the world or reality. But unity has a price: the very force that enables peaceful coexistence also makes us prone to conflict. As a result, in order to find a common point of convergence - of at-one-ment - someone must be sacrificed.

Sacrifice, then, is the historical pillar of mediation. It was endorsed in a cosmic-religious sense in antiquity and rejected for ethical reasons in modernity, where the Judeo-Christian tradition plays an intermediate role in condemning sacrificial violence as such, while accepting sacrifice as a voluntary act offered to save other human beings. Today, as we face the collapse of all shared mediations, this intermediating solution offers a way out of our moral and cultural plight.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fornari, Giuseppe

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Über Autor(innen)

Giuseppe Fornari is Professor of History of Philosophy at Bergamo University, Italy.