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FRAGMENTATION AND MEMORY: MEDITATIONS ON CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE (2008 HC){L10}
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Fordham University Press
ISBN-10
0823229491
ISBN-13
9780823229499
eBay Product ID (ePID)
66681315
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Publication Name
Fragmentation and Memory : Meditations Onÿchristian Doctrine
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Subject
Christianity / Catholic, Religious, Christianity / Catechisms
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Religion, Philosophy
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
14.1 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Edition Number
3
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2008-022288
Reviews
While initially surprising, this book's juxtaposition of the Baltimore Catechism with psychoanalysis and deconstruction proves to be anything but artificial. The book is both philosophically probing, and a serious religious reflection. At several points it touched me personally and not just intellectually. While in many ways the author's emphasis on flesh and the finite, her intimate association of breaking with opening, of mourning with joy, of fragmentation with ecstasy, points beyond traditional orthodoxy, I would stress instead how powerful and natural her philosophical 'moves' seem when it comes to the deepest, most characteristic, and most intractable mysteries in Christian doctrine. She is especially strong on the whole sacramental sensibility, from the high mysteries of the Body and Blood in bread and wine to the only slightly post-pagan veneration of relics of the saints. For these themes, something like the tools this book deploys seem not just suitable but inevitable, even mandatory. This is the most theologically accomplished effort to demythologize 'the resurrection body' and 'eternal life' that I have read in a long while. It is exceedingly exciting to hear it from such a thoroughly and authentically contemporary voice. -----Peter Manchester, Stony Brook University, Author of The Syntax of Time, A narrator of divine surprises, MacKendrick transmutes meditations on the Baltimore Catechism into evocative accounts of memory and embodied self., "A narrator of divine surprises, MacKendrick transmutes meditations on the Baltimore Catechism into evocative accounts of memory and embodied self." -----Mark D. Jordan, Emory University, "A narrator of divine surprises, MacKendrick transmutes meditations on the Baltimore Catechism into evocative accounts of memory and embodied self." --Mark D. Jordan, Emory University, A narrator of divine surprises, MacKendrick transmutes meditations on the Baltimore Catechism into evocative accounts of memory and embodied self.-Mark D. Jordan, A narrator of divine surprises, MacKendrick transmutes meditations on the Baltimore Catechism into evocative accounts of memory and embodied self.”, While initially surprising, this book's juxtaposition of the Baltimore Catechism with psychoanalysis and deconstruction proves to be anything but artificial. The book is both philosophically probing, and a serious religious reflection. At several points it touched me personally and not just intellectually. While in many ways the author's emphasis on flesh and the finite, her intimate association of breaking with opening, of mourning with joy, of fragmentation with ecstasy, points beyond traditional orthodoxy, I would stress instead how powerful and natural her philosophical 'moves' seem when it comes to the deepest, most characteristic, and most intractable mysteries in Christian doctrine. She is especially strong on the whole sacramental sensibility, from the high mysteries of the Body and Blood in bread and wine to the only slightly post-pagan veneration of relics of the saints. For these themes, something like the tools this book deploys seem not just suitable but inevitable, even mandatory. This is the most theologically accomplished effort to demythologize 'the resurrection body' and 'eternal life' that I have read in a long while. It is exceedingly exciting to hear it from such a thoroughly and authentically contemporary voice.
Dewey Decimal
230.2
Synopsis
Philosophers have long and skeptically viewed religion as a source of overeasy answers, with a singular, totalizing "God" and the comfort of an immortal soul being the greatest among them. But religious thought has always been more interesting--indeed, a rich source of endlessly unfolding questions. With questions from the 1885 Baltimore Catechism of the Catholic Church as the starting point for each chapter, Karmen MacKendrick offers postmodern reflections on many of the central doctrines of the Church: the oneness of God, original sin, forgiveness, love and its connection to mortality, reverence for the relics of saints, and the doctrine of bodily resurrection. She maintains that we begin and end in questions and not in answers, in fragments and not in totalities--more precisely, in a fragmentation paradoxically integral to wholeness. Taking seriously Augustine's idea that we find the divine in memory, MacKendrick argues that memory does not lead us back in time to a tidy answer but opens onto a complicated and fragmented time in which we find that the one and the many, before and after and now, even sacred and profane are complexly entangled. Time becomes something lived, corporeal, and sacred, with fragments of eternity interspersed among the stretches of its duration. Our sense of ourselves is correspondingly complex, because theological considerations lead us not to the security of an everlasting, indivisible soul dwelling comfortably in the presence of a paternal deity but to a more complicated, perpetually peculiar, and paradoxical life in the flesh. Written out of MacKendrick's extensive background in both recent and late-ancient philosophy, this moving and poetic book can also be an inspiration to anyone, scholar or lay reader, seeking to find contemporary significance in these ancient theological doctrines., Philosophers have long and skeptically viewed religion as a source of overeasy answers, with a singular, totalizing Godand the comfort of an immortal soul being the greatest among them. But religious thought has always been more interesting-indeed, a rich source of endlessly unfolding questions.With questions from the 1885 Baltimore Catechism of the Catholic Church as the starting point for each chapter, Karmen MacKendrick offers postmodern reflections on many of the central doctrines of the Church: the oneness of God, original sin, forgiveness, love and its connection to mortality, reverence for the relics of saints, and the doctrine of bodily resurrection. She maintains that we begin and end in questions and not in answers, in fragments and not in totalities-more precisely, in a fragmentation paradoxically integralto wholeness.Taking seriously Augustine's idea that we find the divine in memory, MacKendrick argues that memory does not lead us back in time to a tidy answer but opens onto a complicated and fragmented time in which we find that the one and the many, before and after and now, even sacred and profane are complexly entangled. Time becomes something lived, corporeal, and sacred, with fragments of eternity interspersed among the stretches of its duration. Our sense of ourselves is correspondingly complex, because theological considerations leadus not to the security of an everlasting, indivisible soul dwelling comfortably in the presence of a paternal deity but to a more complicated, perpetually peculiar, and paradoxical life in the flesh.Written out of MacKendrick's extensive background in both recent and late-ancient philosophy, this moving and poetic book can also be an inspiration to anyone, scholar or lay reader, seeking to find contemporary significance in these ancient theological doctrines., With a question from the traditional and stodgy-seeming Baltimore Catechism as the epigraph of each chapter, this book addresses religious questions traditionally dismissed by philosophy. It consists in a series of questioning reflections, which maintain that we both begin and end in questions and not in answers, in fragments and not in totalities-more precisely, in a fragmentation paradoxically integral to wholeness. Individual chapters take up the issues of the one and the many, original sin, forgiveness, love and its connection to mortality, the relics and bodies of saints, and the doctrine of bodily resurrection. These chapters are framed by considerations of fragmenting and re-collecting as central to the time of writing. The theological considerations presented here lead not to the security of an everlasting, indivisible soul dwelling comfortably in the presence of a paternal deity but to a more complicated, less neatly bounded, and perpetually peculiar and paradoxical life in the flesh.
LC Classification Number
BX1968.M315 2008
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