Visions and Faces of the Tragic: The Mimesis of Tragedy and the Folly of Salvation in Early Christian...

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Paul M. Blowers (Dean E. Walker Professor of Church History, Dean E. Walker Professor of Church History, Emmanuel Christian Seminary at Milligan College)

Visions and Faces of the Tragic

The Mimesis of Tragedy and the Folly of Salvation in Early Christian Literature

Paul M. Blowers (Dean E. Walker Professor of Church History, Dean E. Walker Professor of Church History, Emmanuel Christian Seminary at Milligan College)

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Oxford University Press
12 June 2020

The Early Church; Church history; Christian theology; Christian spirituality & religious experience

Series: Oxford Early Christian Studies

"Despite the pervasive early Christian repudiation of pagan theatrical art, especially prior to Constantine, this monograph demonstrates the increasing attention of late-ancient Christian authors to the genre of tragedy as a basis to explore the complexities of human finitude, suffering, and mortality in relation to the wisdom, justice, and providence of God. The book argues that various Christian writers, particularly in the post-Constantinian era, were keenly devoted to the mimesis, or imaginative re-presentation, of the tragic dimension of creaturely existence more than with simply mimicking the poetics of the classical Greek and Roman tragedians.

It analyses a whole array of hermeneutical, literary, and rhetorical manifestations of ""tragical mimesis"" in early Christian writing, which, capitalizing on the elements of tragedy already perceptible in biblical revelation, aspired to deepen and edify Christian engagement with multiform evil and with the extreme vicissitudes of historical existence. Early Christian tragical mimetics included not only interpreting (and often amplifying) the Bible's own tragedies for contemporary audiences, but also developing models of the Christian self as a tragic self, revamping the Christian moral conscience as a tragical conscience, and cultivating a distinctively Christian tragical pathos. The study culminates in an extended consideration of the theological intelligence and accountability of ""tragical vision"" and tragical mimesis in early Christian literary culture, and the unique role of the theological virtue of hope in its repertoire of tragical emotions."

By: Paul M. Blowers (Dean E. Walker Professor of Church History Dean E. Walker Professor of Church History Emmanuel Christian Seminary at Milligan College)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 600g
ISBN: 9780198854104
ISBN 10: 0198854102
Series: Oxford Early Christian Studies
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 12 June 2020
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Paul M. Blowers (Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 1988) is a scholar of early Christianity and patristics, and since 1989 has taught church history and historical theology at the Emmanuel Christian Seminary, Milligan College, Tennessee

Reviews for Visions and Faces of the Tragic: The Mimesis of Tragedy and the Folly of Salvation in Early Christian Literature

This engaging and insightful analysis of tragedy in relation to early Christian literature provides a timely intervention within a flourishing area of scholarly interest. * Courtney J. P. Friesen, University of Arizona *