From Dionysus to the Anti-Christ
Rene Girard,'s Defense of Christianity and Erik Peterson's Closure of Any Political Theology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12663228 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christoph Schmidt (0000-0002-2309-3209, Hebrew UniversityJerusalem, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 101-115 |
| Publication date | 2015-02-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Theology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1462-317X • E-ISSN: 1743-1719 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/1462317x14z.000000000122 |
| OpenAlex | W1601607749 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This essay is a reconstruction of Rene Girard's Christian apology in “I saw the Devil fall like Lightening.” It develops Nietzsche's antithesis between Christ and Dionysius which Girard identifies as the antithesis of modernity as such. Against Girard's own alliance with Carl Schmitt the essay adopts the Trinitarian point of view suggested by the author, in order to show that it is Erik Peterson's “Trinitarian” critique of Carl Schmitt's political theology of sovereignty which could fulfill the “true” aim of the author in fact much better
Alliance · Antithesis · Epistemology · Modernity · Order (exchange · Political science · Political theology · Politics · Sovereignty · Theology · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Religious studies · Violence, Religion, and Philosophy · Religious Studies
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |