Full Description
This title was first published in 2001. A volume of essays on the Pauline, ecclesiastical body of Christ -the church. It is, of course, not possible to separate completely one body of Christ from another, and the essays do not make the attempt. The dark, institutional history of the church is a running theme, a running sore, throughout the volume; in that sense the essays respond to Michel Foucault's insistence that we should be mindful of the institutions that surreptitiously inform our discourse and culture. The essays deal with the myriad of ways in which the church is named, spoken and, above all, written in the age of secularization. In this sense, the contributors are simply exploring the relationship between the church and modern writing.
Contents
'These Are My Bodies': An Introduction; I: The Church Militant; 1: Communing with the Church: Revelation and Revolution in Engels' 'On the History of Early Christianity' (1894- 95); 2: The Writings in the Church: T.S. Eliot, Ecclesiastes and the Four Quartets; 3: Joycing Derrida, Churching Derrida: Glas, église and Ulysses; 2: The Church (In)Visible; 4: The Matter of Faith: Incarnation and Incorporation in Tennyson's In Memoriam; 5: 'A City Without a Church': The Origin of Species, the Tree of Life and the Apocalypse; 6: Candlesticks in the Miasmal Mist: The Church and T.S. Eliot; 7: Christ's Breaking of the 'Great Chain of Being'; III: The Church Subjective; 8: Christendom and the Police: Kierkegaard Inside the Panopticon; 9: Christ's Queer Wound, or Divine Humiliation Among the Unchurched; 10: Histoires de l'Église: The Body of Christ in the Thought of Julia Kristeva; 11: The Private Parts of Jesus Christ; 102: Church After Church: In Conclusion
