This book of essays on poetic speech, viewed in a literary-critical, theological and philosophical light, explores the connections and disconnections between vulnerable human words, so often burdened with doubt and pain, and the ultimate kenosis of the divine Word on the Cross. …
This book of essays on poetic speech, viewed in a literary-critical, theological and philosophical light, explores the connections and disconnections between vulnerable human words, so often burdened with doubt and pain, and the ultimate kenosis of the divine Word on the Cross. …
Die Selbsterniedrigung Christi, wie sie Paulus beschreibt, gehört zu den zentralen Konzepten der Christologie. Sie wurde von den Kirchenvätern und den Ökumenischen Konzilien in einer Rhetorik des Paradoxes ausgearbeitet. Daran knüpften die christlichen Kulturen sprachliche, bild…
The author explores the work of fourteenth-century writers who discussed the intellectual implications of the religious idea of Incarnation in poetical and rhetorical forms. The book then goes on to discuss how the Incarnation of Christ allowed writers to meditate on the nature …