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‘My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?’ the experience of god’s withdrawal in late antique exegesis, christology and ascetic literature

Studia Traditionis Theologiæ 43, 2021
The motif of God’s turning away his face still matters in theology as a direct aftermath of the horrors that the world experienced during WWII and also in the wake of the pro- motion of an excessive reading of theology, called kenotic. It even appears in unexpected places with no discernible association to the historical development of the Christian doctrine (Caputo, Žižek and C.S. Lewis). This book provides a historical supplement to current approaches and explores the way that late antique theology laid out the theoretical substratum on which modern approaches could anchor themselves. It presents the nuanced ways in which the motif of divine abandonment developed in late antiquity, displays the various threads of thought that theology pursued in different contexts (exegesis, Christology and ascetic desert literature) and raises three points: the extent to which parallel lines were drawn in late antique theology between the experiences of the bride in the Song of Songs, Jesus on the cross and the early ascetics; the normativeness of divine abandonment in early Chris- tian thought and its association to sinfulness; the possibility that late antique theology had introduced a Jesus-like ‘kind’ of abandonment....Read more
Evaggelos Bartzis ‘My God, my God, why have you abandoned me’ THE EXPERIENCE OF GODS WITHDRAWAL IN LATE ANTIQUE EXEGESIS, CHRISTOLOGY AND ASCETIC LITERATURE STUDIA TRADITIONIS THEOLOGIAE Explorations in Early and Medieval Theology S T T 43 E. Bartzis The motif of God’s turning away his face still matters in theology as a direct aftermath of the horrors that the world experienced during WWII and also in the wake of the pro- motion of an excessive reading of theology, called kenotic. It even appears in unexpected places with no discernible association to the historical development of the Christian doctrine (Caputo, Žižek and C.S. Lewis). This book pro- vides a historical supplement to current approaches and explores the way that late antique theology laid out the theoretical substratum on which modern approaches could anchor themselves. It presents the nuanced ways in which the motif of divine abandonment developed in late antiq- uity, displays the various threads of thought that theology pursued in different contexts (exegesis, Christology and ascetic desert literature) and raises three points: the extent to which parallel lines were drawn in late an- tique theology between the experiences of the bride in the Song of Songs, Jesus on the cross and the early ascetics; the normativeness of divine abandonment in early Chris- tian thought and its association to sinfulness; the possibility that late antique theology had introduced a Jesus-like ‘kind’ of abandonment. Dr Evaggelos Bartzis obtained his BA in Theology at the University of Athens, Greece and completed his doctoral research at Durham University, UK. He is an independent researcher who teaches Religious Education and History in a private school, and also a private tutor teaching English to Students of Other Languages (ESOL). 9 782503 593609 ISBN: 978-2-503-59360-9 H F ‘My God, my God, why have you abandoned me’
STT 43 ‘My God, my God, why have you abandoned me’ Dr Evaggelos Bartzis obtained his BA in Theology at the University of Athens, Greece and completed his doctoral research at Durham University, UK. He is an independent researcher who teaches Religious Education and History in a private school, and also a private tutor teaching English to Students of Other Languages (ESOL). E. Bartzis The motif of God’s turning away his face still matters in theology as a direct aftermath of the horrors that the world experienced during WWII and also in the wake of the promotion of an excessive reading of theology, called kenotic. It even appears in unexpected places with no discernible association to the historical development of the Christian doctrine (Caputo, Žižek and C.S. Lewis). This book provides a historical supplement to current approaches and explores the way that late antique theology laid out the theoretical substratum on which modern approaches could anchor themselves. It presents the nuanced ways in which the motif of divine abandonment developed in late antiquity, displays the various threads of thought that theology pursued in different contexts (exegesis, Christology and ascetic desert literature) and raises three points: the extent to which parallel lines were drawn in late antique theology between the experiences of the bride in the Song of Songs, Jesus on the cross and the early ascetics; the normativeness of divine abandonment in early Christian thought and its association to sinfulness; the possibility that late antique theology had introduced a Jesus-like ‘kind’ of abandonment. ISBN: 978-2-503-59360-9 9 782503 593609 H STUDIA TRADITIONIS THEOLOGIAE Explorations in Early and Medieval Theology Evaggelos Bartzis ‘My God, my God, why have you abandoned me’ THE EXPERIENCE OF GOD’S WITHDRAWAL IN LATE ANTIQUE EXEGESIS, CHRISTOLOGY AND ASCETIC LITERATURE F
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