{"product_id":"st-matthew-passion-hardback-9781501705809","title":"St. Matthew Passion (Hardback) 9781501705809","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSt. Matthew Passion\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eHans Blumenberg (Author), Helmut Müller-Sievers (Translated by), Paul Fleming (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501705809\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 November 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e258 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eHans Blumenberg's \u003ci\u003eSt. Matthew Passion\u003c\/i\u003e is a profound and passionate examination of the philosopher's central theme of Christian faith and the passion of the Son of God.\u003c\/p\u003e (Zeitzeichen) \u003cp\u003eThe translators have managed beautifully the enormous shifts in Blumenberg's sometimes taxing prose; [they] offer readers both senses of \"passion,\" suffering and enthusiasm, a kind of enlargement of humanity that parallels the still-unscrolling story Blumenberg tells.\u003c\/p\u003e (Critical Inquiry) \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSt. Matthew Passion\u003c\/i\u003e stands as the deepest engagement with the Gospel narrative by a 20th century philosopher who is also a critic of religion. But its criticism lies not in conventionally-construed atheistic grounds (on which the narrative could easily be dismissed). Instead, it is a careful engagement of the texts in question that deserves careful consideration by anyone who cares about these texts.\u003c\/p\u003e (Journal for Continental Philosophy of Religion)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSt. Matthew Passion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e is Hans Blumenberg's sustained and devastating meditation on Jesus's anguished cry on the cross, \"My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?\" \u003c\/b\u003eWhy did this abandonment happen, what does it mean within the logic of the Gospels, how have believers and nonbelievers understood it, and how does it live on in art? With rare philological acuity and vast historical learning, Blumenberg unfolds context upon context in which this cry has reverberated, from early Christian apologetics and heretics to twentieth-century literature and philosophy. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBlumenberg's guide through this unending story of divine abandonment is Johann Sebastian Bach's monumental \u003ci\u003eMatthäuspassion\u003c\/i\u003e, the parabolic mirror that bundled eighteen hundred years of reflection on the fate of the crucified and the only available medium that allows us post-Christian listeners to feel the anguish of those who witnessed the events of the Passion. With interspersed references to writers such as Goethe, Rilke, Kafka, Freud, and Benjamin, Blumenberg gathers evidence to raise the singular question that, in his view, Christian theology has not been able to answer: How can an omnipotent God be so offended by his creatures that he must sacrifice and abandon his own Son?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. The Horizon\u003cbr\u003e Pacing Off the Horizon\u003cbr\u003e The One Author of the One Story\u003cbr\u003e The Beginning of Wisdom\u003cbr\u003e Relief—or Even More?\u003cbr\u003e The Theological Generosity of the St. Matthew Passion\u003cbr\u003e Saving the 'Implied Listener' from Historical Reason\u003cbr\u003e The Metaphorical Horizon\u003cbr\u003e The Ransom\u003cbr\u003e The Lamb\u003cbr\u003e And the Listening Never Ends\u003cbr\u003e An Apostrophe Goethe Could Not Understand\u003cbr\u003e Imagining Nietzsche Listening to the St. Matthew Passion\u003cbr\u003e Listening to Rilke as He Listens to the St. Matthew Passion\u003cbr\u003e Wittgenstein's Mother\u003cbr\u003e 'Never Will This Child Be Crucified...'\u003cbr\u003e 2. Escalations of a God\u003cbr\u003e If It Was This One, It Can Be No Other\u003cbr\u003e An Aesthetics of Creation: How It Justifies the Existence of the World\u003cbr\u003e God Refuses to Be Transparent\u003cbr\u003e Time and Again: What Happened in Paradise?\u003cbr\u003e The Magnification of God\u003cbr\u003e The Work of the Patriarchs and the Work of Music\u003cbr\u003e Abraham's Fear of God, Thought to the End: The Lamb, Not the Ram\u003cbr\u003e 3. Corporeality\u003cbr\u003e The Incarnation of the Word as an Offense to the Angels\u003cbr\u003e Countermove: The Angel of the Annunciation\u003cbr\u003e God's Entanglement in the World\u003cbr\u003e Since When Am I? Since When Was This One?\u003cbr\u003e Why So Late?\u003cbr\u003e A Fulfilled Promise\u003cbr\u003e 4. Apostates\u003cbr\u003e The Comic Element of Simon Peter\u003cbr\u003e The Denial Becomes Defamation\u003cbr\u003e The One Driven by Great Expectations\u003cbr\u003e When Someone Becomes Too Old to Reach for Dominion\u003cbr\u003e Visit to a Stone That Almost Cried Out\u003cbr\u003e The Realism of the Field of Blood\u003cbr\u003e The Pieces of Silver\u003cbr\u003e 5. Between Two Murderers\u003cbr\u003e Jesus's Susceptibility to Temptation\u003cbr\u003e Barabbas and the Authentic Words of Jesus\u003cbr\u003e The 'Two Murderers' on Golgotha\u003cbr\u003e 'He Calls for Elijah!'\u003cbr\u003e The Primal Scream\u003cbr\u003e Theological Defense and Human Recovery\u003cbr\u003e No Martyrdom\u003cbr\u003e The Last Word in the Passion of Saint John\u003cbr\u003e The Witness of the Fourth Evangelist\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Tears\u003cbr\u003e 'We Sit Down in Tears...'\u003cbr\u003e Unto the Sealed Tomb\u003cbr\u003e Tears of the Father, Only to Be Thought\u003cbr\u003e Paul Weeps\u003cbr\u003e The Power of Tears over Omnipotence\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Imperceptibility of the Messiah\u003cbr\u003e Caravaggio's Emmaus\u003cbr\u003e Traces\u003cbr\u003e From the Unwritten\u003cbr\u003e A Misinterpreted Agraphon\u003cbr\u003e The Messianic: Prophet and Sybil\u003cbr\u003e The Risk of Still Waiting for the Messiah\u003cbr\u003e Messianic Minimalism\u003cbr\u003e The Desperate Messianism of the Second Rome\u003cbr\u003e The Sin That Cannot Be Forgiven\u003cbr\u003e Remembering Origen\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Excesses of the Philosophers' God\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52681243525400,"sku":"9781501705809","price":31.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/st-matthew-passion-hardback-9781501705809","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}