The fall and rise of King Oedipus: On sacrificial logic and "Proto-Christology"
This essay is placed within a continuing debate on the appropriateness of a Christian deployment of tragedy. According David Bentley Hart, tragedy legitimates a sacrificial and scapegoating logic that is in contradiction with the Christian gospel. It promotes exclusion and therefore is imaginatively...
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Stellenbosch theological journal
Year: 2021, Volume: 7, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-27 |
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