John Schad
Ashgate
Hardback
194
2001
For Jean Genet celebrated thief and homosexual 'the church [is] a box of surprises'. The first surprise is that as 'the body of Christ' it is exposed to all the perils and paradoxes of being a body in space and time.Starting with Thomas Carlyle's claim that 'Books are the Church' and ending with Derrida's remark that 'we have [still] not left the Church' these exciting new essays offer radically different accounts of churches both literal and metaphorical in writing that ranges from Kierkegaard to Kristeva Engels to Eliot and Darwin to Feinberg. Here we encounter the church of history and literature a quirky kaleidoscopic church that is by turns revolutionary totalitarian blind panoptic criminal philosophic telephonic queer and even sub-atomic. The result is a book that might just alter the way that readers and writers imagine experience and even are the church.
Ashgate
Hardback
194
2001
For Jean Genet celebrated thief and homosexual 'the church [is] a box of surprises'. The first surprise is that as 'the body of Christ' it is exposed to all the perils and paradoxes of being a body in space and time.Starting with Thomas Carlyle's claim that 'Books are the Church' and ending with Derrida's remark that 'we have [still] not left the Church' these exciting new essays offer radically different accounts of churches both literal and metaphorical in writing that ranges from Kierkegaard to Kristeva Engels to Eliot and Darwin to Feinberg. Here we encounter the church of history and literature a quirky kaleidoscopic church that is by turns revolutionary totalitarian blind panoptic criminal philosophic telephonic queer and even sub-atomic. The result is a book that might just alter the way that readers and writers imagine experience and even are the church.