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After Writing

On the Liturgical Cosummation of Philosophy
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After Writing challenges modern and postmodern Christianity by reinterpreting Platonic philosophy with an emphasis on liturgical theory and practice rather than metaphysical presence. Catherine Pickstock explores Christian concepts of language, temporality, embodiment, and divine presence through detailed analyses of Plato's Phaedrus, medieval Roman Rite, and Eucharistic theology, advocating for a restoration of liturgical order grounded in historical and philosophical traditions.
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This book is essential reading for systematic and philosophical theologians, students of theology, liturgists, historians, and linguists interested in Christian theology, liturgical studies, and philosophy of religion.

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Provides a contribution to the growing genre of works which offer a challenge to the modern and post-modern accounts of Christianity. Catherine Pickstock shows how Platonic philosophy did not assume a primacy of metaphysical presence, but a primacy of liturgical theory and practice.

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After Writing provides a significant contribution to the growing genre of works that challenges modern and postmodern accounts of Christianity. Catherine Pickstock shows how Platonic philosophy did not assume a primacy of metaphysical presence, as had previously been thought, but rather a primacy of liturgical theory and practice.

The author also provides a significant rethinking of Christian understandings of language, temporal and bodily life, and notions of the presence of God by discussing Christian understandings of liturgical practice, especially in the Medieval and pre-Enlightenment era. Through a detailed reading of Plato's Phaedrus, the medieval Roman Rite, and a discussion of the theology of the Eucharist, the book indicates directions for the restoration of the liturgical order.

This book will be required reading for all systematic and philosophical theologians and their students, in addition to being of great interest to liturgists, historians, and linguists. The ideas presented in the book are both significant in themselves and of great use at a teaching level.

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After Writing has received strong acclaim for its scholarly insight and provocative thesis. Reviewers praise Pickstock as a leading young theologian whose sophisticated treatment of topics like Derrida and postmodern religion provides a rich challenge to established ideas. Her work is described as promising, ambitious, and a bright contribution to theology, with endorsements from respected scholars including Fergus Kerr, L. Gregory Jones, and Paul Avis.

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Book Details

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ISBN: 9780631206729

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 20 November 1997

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 23.0mm

Width: 155.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 454g

Pages: 320

About the Author

Catherine Pickstock is a Research Fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

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