Writing Faith

In Writing Faith, Timothy Stanley provides a novel reevaluation of Jacques Derridas deconstructive account of writing. Derridas various essays on writing's materiality in books, scrolls, typewriters and digital displays, briefly touched on the question of religion. At times he directed his attention to the mediatic nature of Christianity. However, such comments have rarely been applied to formal aspects of religious texts. In response, this book investigates the rise of the Christian codex in its second-to-fifth-century-CE Jewish and Greco-Roman contexts. By better understanding the religious nature of this technical development, it becomes possible to reframe writing's coincidence with faith.

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Writing Faith

In Writing Faith, Timothy Stanley provides a novel reevaluation of Jacques Derridas deconstructive account of writing. Derridas various essays on writing's materiality in books, scrolls, typewriters and digital displays, briefly touched on the question of religion. At times he directed his attention to the mediatic nature of Christianity. However, such comments have rarely been applied to formal aspects of religious texts. In response, this book investigates the rise of the Christian codex in its second-to-fifth-century-CE Jewish and Greco-Roman contexts. By better understanding the religious nature of this technical development, it becomes possible to reframe writing's coincidence with faith.

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Writing Faith

Writing Faith

by Timothy Stanley
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In Writing Faith, Timothy Stanley provides a novel reevaluation of Jacques Derridas deconstructive account of writing. Derridas various essays on writing's materiality in books, scrolls, typewriters and digital displays, briefly touched on the question of religion. At times he directed his attention to the mediatic nature of Christianity. However, such comments have rarely been applied to formal aspects of religious texts. In response, this book investigates the rise of the Christian codex in its second-to-fifth-century-CE Jewish and Greco-Roman contexts. By better understanding the religious nature of this technical development, it becomes possible to reframe writing's coincidence with faith.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781506423296
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress, Publishers
Publication date: 02/01/2017
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 154
File size: 5 MB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Timothy Stanley is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He researches philosophy of religion, philosophical theology and political philosophy. He is the author of Protestant Metaphysics after Karl Barth and Martin Heidegger (2010) and the editor of Religion after Secularization in Australia (2015).

Table of Contents

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xiii

1 The Early Codex Book 1

2 Writing's Supplementation 13

3 Faith's Repetition 35

4 Disrupting Scripture 55

5 Writing Faith 81

Epilogue 95

Bibliography 103

Index 125

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