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Aesthetic Theology and Its Enemies
David Nirenberg
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Description for Aesthetic Theology and Its Enemies
Paperback. The role of Judaism in the formation of Western aesthetics Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: HRAC; HRC; HRJ; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 227 x 19. Weight in Grams: 398.
Throughout most of Western European history, Jews have been a numerically tiny or entirely absent minority, but across that history Europeans have nonetheless worried a great deal about Judaism. Why should that be so? This short but powerfully argued book suggests that Christian anxieties about their own transcendent ideals made Judaism an important tool for Christianity, as an apocalyptic religion - characterized by prizing soul over flesh, the spiritual over the literal, the heavenly over the physical world - came to terms with the inescapable importance of body, language, and material things in this world. Nirenberg shows ... Read more
Throughout most of Western European history, Jews have been a numerically tiny or entirely absent minority, but across that history Europeans have nonetheless worried a great deal about Judaism. Why should that be so? This short but powerfully argued book suggests that Christian anxieties about their own transcendent ideals made Judaism an important tool for Christianity, as an apocalyptic religion - characterized by prizing soul over flesh, the spiritual over the literal, the heavenly over the physical world - came to terms with the inescapable importance of body, language, and material things in this world. Nirenberg shows ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Brandeis University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781611687781
SKU
V9781611687781
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