Taste and See

Eucharist as Revelation in Phenomenological Perspective

J.W. Olson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

258 Seiten

2023
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-9787-1578-3 (ISBN)

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J.W. Olson argues that recent Christian theologies of divine revelation, though often centered on the irreducibility of the incarnation, have not taken incarnality sufficiently into account as the mechanism for the knowledge of God in Christ. Addressing this problem within a secular context in which the viability of religious truth is under increased scrutiny, Olson engages with the phenomenology of Martin Heidegger to suggest that Christian language and belief are shaped at the precognitive level of embodied involvement long before they ever take mental, conceptual form. He then offers an original interpretation of the Eucharist as the material epicenter of Christian epistemology. In the sacrament, Christians are swept up into a dynamic world that reveals itself as the very person of Jesus Christ, so that Christians come to know Christ most fundamentally through the movements of the body. Recasting the parameters for identifying Christ’s sacramental presence, Olson reiterates the Christian focus on the incarnation as not just the medium of God’s self-revelation but as the very content of Christian faith. Christ is known in act, and so God is revealed where Christ lives in us.

J. W. Olson is departmental lecturer in Historical and Systematic Theology at the University of Oxford, based at Oriel and Trinity colleges.

Chapter 1. Revelation Revisited
Chapter 2. Understanding
Chapter 3. Language
Chapter 4. Personhood
Chapter 5. Eucharist as Revelation
Chapter 6. Eucharist as Hermeneutic

Erscheinungsdatum	13.09.2023
Zusatzinfo	1 b/w photos; 1 tables;
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 239 mm
Gewicht	540 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	1-9787-1578-1 / 1978715781
ISBN-13	978-1-9787-1578-3 / 9781978715783
Zustand	Neuware