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"Not I, but Christ": allegory and the puritan self.
Christianity, however, never, even in its most reformed mode, renounces nostalgia and desire. Even as reformers preach an "experimental" understanding of the Word, their own orthodoxy insists that the Word is never fully and immediately experienced in what we familiarly call the here and now. They preserve allegorical ontology even as they rail against exegesis and a faith based on tropes and shadows. If the Word is always literal, then experience itself is but an allegorical shadow of the life to come.
In claiming that his flesh had been destroyed ("scrap't away," Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God
Philippians 2:6
If subversion is possible, it will be a subversion from within the terms of the law, through the possibilities that emerge when the law turns against itself and spawns unexpected permutations of itself.
Judith Butler(1)
- Trope and truth in The Pilgrim's Progress.(Critical essay)
- Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 Machosky, Brenda January 1, 2007 700+ words
...titles one of his chapters, "'Not I, but Christ': The Puritan Self--Escape from Allegory...declared himself quite literally united with Christ, and Mary Gadbury, who claimed to be this Christ's spouse. (13) The Protestant crisis...
- Christ
- Reference information from: -Ologies and -Isms January 1, 1986 700+ words
79. Christ See also 80. CHRISTIANITY ; 205. HERESY...the 8th-century heretical doctrine that Christ in His human nature was the son of God...heretical by orthodox Christian-ity, that Christ was merely the noblest of men and, being...
- Rethinking Christ and Culture: A Post-Christendom Perspective.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: The Christian Century Miller, Keith Graber October 30, 2007 700+ words
Rethinking Christ and Culture: A Post-Christendom Perspective...publication, H. Richard Niebuhr's Christ and Culture still generates theological...exploiting them." Carter acknowledges that Christ and Culture shaped several generations...
- Christ Killers: The Jews and the Passion from the Bible to the Big Screen.(Book...
- Magazine article from: Church History Tyler, J. Jeffery March 1, 2008 700+ words
Christ Killers: The Jews and the Passion from the Bible to...claim that the Jews were responsible for the death of Christ. According to Cohen, over the last two millennia the Christ-killer myth has been essential to the development...
- Indwelling Christ, indwelling Christians: living as marked.
- Magazine article from: Currents in Theology and Mission Stortz, Martha Ellen June 1, 2007 700+ words
...explore both sides of indwelling: the way Christ dwells in us, and also the less-explored side of indwelling, the way we dwell in Christ. We Christians are marked women and men...our body. In the Eucharist, we take Christ's body into our own and literally become...
- Christ without culture.(The Public Square: A Continuing Survey of Religion,...
- Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life Neuhaus, Richard John April 1, 2007 700+ words
...big picture of the relationship between Christ and culture is, at the beginning of the...is perhaps just as well. Speaking of Christ and Culture will, for many, immediately...ways in which the relationship between Christ and culture, meaning Christianity and...
- Jesus Christ and Creation in the Theology of John Calvin.(Review) (book reviews)
- Magazine article from: The Ecumenical Review Hesselink, I. John July 1, 1999 700+ words
Peter Wyatt, Jesus Christ and Creation in the Theology of John...Calvin's theology: the relation of Christ to creation or, more technically, the...theology. Wyatt, a United Church of Christ in Canada minister and currently an executive...
- WAS CHRIST HEADED TO SUBURBS?(News)
- Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) Kreimer, Peggy March 9, 2006 700+ words
...Kreimer Post staff reporter Concerns that Christ Hospital would be asked to close in Mount...Health Alliance of Greater Cincincinnati, Christ officials said. Meeting with The Cincinnati...editorial board Wednesday, a delegation of Christ's board and its medical staff portrayed...
