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Theology and the kinesthetic imagination : Jonathan Edwards and the making of modernity
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Theology and the kinesthetic imagination : Jonathan Edwards and the making of modernity / Kathryn Reklis.
ISBN
9780199373062
019937306X
Publication
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]
Physical Description
xi, 166 pages ; 24 cm
Summary
Beauty, bodily knowledge, and desire have emerged as candidates to reorient theological reflection by subverting the fragmentation of the self wrought by Western Enlightenment philosophies and the political and economic regimes those philosophies fund. Reklis returns to a particular moment in the history of Protestant Christianity and its collusion with the creation of this modern, rational subject: the publicly rehearsed theological debates regarding the series of 18th century Atlantic world revivals known as the Great Awakening and the work of pro-revivalist theologian Jonathan Edwards.
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Language
English
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January 16, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (153-161) and index.
Contents
Introduction. Beauty, body, and desire : or what this book is "about" ; Modernity, subjectivity, and the circum-Atlantic world ; Performance theory : scenarios and the kinesthetic imagination ; Outline of chapters
Location, location, location. Sermon events and the problem of performance ; Marketplace and tavern house ; The circum-Atlantic world
Creating the repertoire. Jonathan Edwards as preacher/performer : the sermon event as laboratory ; Beauty, pleasure, and delight : swallowed up in God ; Terror and damnation : swallowed up in wrath
Scenarios of universality. Scripting a surprising work of God : toward a scenario of universality ; Kinesthetic imagination and the scenario of universality ; Competing scenarios : sovereignty and the circum-Atlantic subject ; Competing scenarios : universality and the slave economy ; Conclusion : the afterlife of failure.
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