"This book of biblical scholarship explores the passion story in its four very distinct Gospel versions alongside its musical appropriation by Johann Sebastian Bach's in his oratorio. It probes the founding myth of the Christian West as not merely the sacrifice of a god (by a god), but also the abandonment of a son by a father, due to a creation gone awry that left humanity to fend on its own"--
"This book of biblical scholarship explores the passion story in its four very distinct Gospel versions alongside its musical appropriation by Johann Sebastian Bach's in his oratorio. It probes the founding myth of the Christian West as not merely the sacrifice of a god (by a god), but also the abandonment of a son by a father, due to a creation gone awry that left humanity to fend on its own"--
Hans Blumenberg (1920-1996) was one of the most important German philosophers of the twentieth century. Among his many books that have been translated into English are Paradigms for a Metaphorology and Rigorism of Truth. Helmut Müller-Sievers is Professor of German at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and author of several books, including The Science of Literature. Paul Fleming is the L. Sanford and Jo Mills Reis Professor of Humanities and the Taylor Family Director of the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University. He is author of The Pleasures of Abandonment and Exemplarity and Mediocrity.
Inhaltsangabe
1. The Horizon Pacing Off the Horizon The One Author of the One Story The Beginning of Wisdom Relief-or Even More? The Theological Generosity of the St. Matthew Passion Saving the 'Implied Listener' from Historical Reason The Metaphorical Horizon The Ransom The Lamb And the Listening Never Ends An Apostrophe Goethe Could Not Understand Imagining Nietzsche Listening to the St. Matthew Passion Listening to Rilke as He Listens to the St. Matthew Passion Wittgenstein's Mother 'Never Will This Child Be Crucified...' 2. Escalations of a God If It Was This One, It Can Be No Other An Aesthetics of Creation: How It Justifies the Existence of the World God Refuses to Be Transparent Time and Again: What Happened in Paradise? The Magnification of God The Work of the Patriarchs and the Work of Music Abraham's Fear of God, Thought to the End: The Lamb, Not the Ram 3. Corporeality The Incarnation of the Word as an Offense to the Angels Countermove: The Angel of the Annunciation God's Entanglement in the World Since When Am I? Since When Was This One? Why So Late? A Fulfilled Promise 4. Apostates The Comic Element of Simon Peter The Denial Becomes Defamation The One Driven by Great Expectations When Someone Becomes Too Old to Reach for Dominion Visit to a Stone That Almost Cried Out The Realism of the Field of Blood The Pieces of Silver 5. Between Two Murderers Jesus's Susceptibility to Temptation Barabbas and the Authentic Words of Jesus The 'Two Murderers' on Golgotha 'He Calls for Elijah!' The Primal Scream Theological Defense and Human Recovery No Martyrdom The Last Word in the Passion of Saint John The Witness of the Fourth Evangelist 6. The Tears 'We Sit Down in Tears...' Unto the Sealed Tomb Tears of the Father, Only to Be Thought Paul Weeps The Power of Tears over Omnipotence 7. The Imperceptibility of the Messiah Caravaggio's Emmaus Traces From the Unwritten A Misinterpreted Agraphon The Messianic: Prophet and Sybil The Risk of Still Waiting for the Messiah Messianic Minimalism The Desperate Messianism of the Second Rome The Sin That Cannot Be Forgiven Remembering Origen 8. The Excesses of the Philosophers' God
1. The Horizon Pacing Off the Horizon The One Author of the One Story The Beginning of Wisdom Relief-or Even More? The Theological Generosity of the St. Matthew Passion Saving the 'Implied Listener' from Historical Reason The Metaphorical Horizon The Ransom The Lamb And the Listening Never Ends An Apostrophe Goethe Could Not Understand Imagining Nietzsche Listening to the St. Matthew Passion Listening to Rilke as He Listens to the St. Matthew Passion Wittgenstein's Mother 'Never Will This Child Be Crucified...' 2. Escalations of a God If It Was This One, It Can Be No Other An Aesthetics of Creation: How It Justifies the Existence of the World God Refuses to Be Transparent Time and Again: What Happened in Paradise? The Magnification of God The Work of the Patriarchs and the Work of Music Abraham's Fear of God, Thought to the End: The Lamb, Not the Ram 3. Corporeality The Incarnation of the Word as an Offense to the Angels Countermove: The Angel of the Annunciation God's Entanglement in the World Since When Am I? Since When Was This One? Why So Late? A Fulfilled Promise 4. Apostates The Comic Element of Simon Peter The Denial Becomes Defamation The One Driven by Great Expectations When Someone Becomes Too Old to Reach for Dominion Visit to a Stone That Almost Cried Out The Realism of the Field of Blood The Pieces of Silver 5. Between Two Murderers Jesus's Susceptibility to Temptation Barabbas and the Authentic Words of Jesus The 'Two Murderers' on Golgotha 'He Calls for Elijah!' The Primal Scream Theological Defense and Human Recovery No Martyrdom The Last Word in the Passion of Saint John The Witness of the Fourth Evangelist 6. The Tears 'We Sit Down in Tears...' Unto the Sealed Tomb Tears of the Father, Only to Be Thought Paul Weeps The Power of Tears over Omnipotence 7. The Imperceptibility of the Messiah Caravaggio's Emmaus Traces From the Unwritten A Misinterpreted Agraphon The Messianic: Prophet and Sybil The Risk of Still Waiting for the Messiah Messianic Minimalism The Desperate Messianism of the Second Rome The Sin That Cannot Be Forgiven Remembering Origen 8. The Excesses of the Philosophers' God
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