Writing the bodies of Christ : the church from Carlyle to Derrida / edited by John Schad.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schad, John, 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church--History of doctrines--19th century.

Church.

Church--History of doctrines--20th century.

Church--History of doctrines.

Church in literature.

Physical Description:

xiii, 180 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2001]

Contents:

'These are My Bodies': An Introduction / John Schad 1

Part I The Church Militant

Chapter 1 Communing with the Church: Revelation and Revolution in Engels' 'On the History of Early Christianity' (1894-95) / Willy Maley 11

Chapter 2 The Writings in the Church: T.S. Eliot, Ecclesiastes and the Four Quartets / Terence R. Wright 25

Chapter 3 Joycing Derrida, Churching Derrida: Glas, eglise and Ulysses / John Schad 41

Part II The Church (In)visible

Chapter 4 The Matter of Faith: Incarnation and Incorporation in Tennyson's In Memoriam / Julian Wolfreys 59

Chapter 5 'A City Without a Church': The Origin of Species, the Tree of Life and the Apocalypse / Kevin Mills 75

Chapter 6 Candlesticks in the Miasmal Mist: The Church and T.S. Eliot / Martin Warner 89

Chapter 7 Christ's Breaking of the 'Great Chain of Being' / Slavoj Zizek 105

Part III The Church Subjective

Chapter 8 Christendom and the Police: Kierkegaard Inside the Panopticon / Jeremy Tambling 113

Chapter 9 Christ's Queer Wound, or Divine Humiliation Among the Unchurched / Kathryn Bond Stockton 127

Chapter 10 Histories de l'Eglise: The Body of Christ in the Thought of Julia Kristeva / Luke Ferretter 145

Chapter 11 The Private Parts of Jesus Christ / Nicholas Royle 159

Church After Church: In Conclusion / John Schad 177.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0754605388

OCLC:

46641995