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The Mystery of Evil
Benedict XVI and the End of Days
Sofort lieferbar | Lieferzeit: Sofort lieferbar I
Artikel-Nr:
9781503602731
Veröffentl:
2017
Erscheinungsdatum:
23.05.2017
Seiten:
96
Autor:
Giorgio Agamben
Gewicht:
81 g
Format:
178x116x9 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Giorgio Agamben is a contemporary Italian philosopher and political theorist whose works have been translated into numerous languages. His most recent title with Stanford University Press is The Fire and the Tale (2017).
In 2013, Benedict XVI became only the second pope in the history of the Catholic Church to resign from office. In this brief but illuminating study, Giorgio Agamben argues that Benedict's gesture, far from being solely a matter of internal ecclesiastical politics, is exemplary in an age when the question of legitimacy has been virtually left aside in favor of a narrow focus on legality. This reflection on the recent history of the Church opens out into an analysis of one of the earliest documents of Christianity: the Second Epistle to the Thessalonians, which stages a dramatic confrontation between the "man of lawlessness" and the enigmatic katechon, the power that holds back the end of days. In Agamben's hands, this infamously obscure passage reveals the theological dynamics of history that continue to inform Western culture to this day.