Dionysus, Christ, and the Death of God, Volume 2

Christianity and Modernity Volume 2

von Giuseppe Fornari

580 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This magisterial reflection on the history and destiny of the West compares Greco-Roman civilization and the Judeo-Christian tradition in order to understand what both unites and divides them. Mediation, understood as a collective, symbolic experience, gives society unity and meaning, putting human beings in contact with a universal object known as the world or reality. But unity has a price: the very force that enables peaceful coexistence also makes us prone to conflict. As a result, in order to find a common point of convergence--of at-one-ment--someone must be sacrificed. Sacrifice, then, is the historical pillar of mediation. It was endorsed in a cosmic-religious sense in antiquity and rejected for ethical reasons in modernity, where the Judeo-Christian tradition plays an intermediate role in condemning sacrificial violence as such, while accepting sacrifice as a voluntary act offered to save other human beings. Today, as we face the collapse of all shared mediations, this intermediating solution offers a way out of our moral and cultural plight.

• Themen: Philosophie und Religion Religion und Glaube Religion, allgemein Religionsphilosophie
• ISBN: 9781611863574
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.11.2020
• Größe: 222 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Michigan State University Press