This project focuses on the political theology of Johann Baptist Metz and its critique of Enlightenment rationality or technical reason. I examine Metzs critique of the Enlightenment and his counter to its defective tendencies: the fundamental concepts of memory, narrative, and solidarity encapsulated in the dangerous memory of Jesus Christ. My concern then shifts to biblical connections within Metzs theology by investigating his dangerous memory of Jesus Christ and his Israelite-Biblical paradigm. I seek to expand the Israelite-Biblical Paradigm through the critical lens of the Frankfurt school. I throw light on three Enlightenment denialsthe denial of death, tragedy, and bounded timeand then offer a biblical-theological corrective via the Old Testament. In this way recognizing the Old Testament as interruption of Enlightenment rationality furthers the insights of Metzs Israelite-Biblical Paradigm and opens up a means by which the Old Testament may offer equally dangerous memories to the Church.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VANDERBILT/oai:VANDERBILTETD:etd-03262012-133734 |
| Date | 10 April 2012 |
| Creators | Smith, Jason Michael |
| Contributors | Bruce T. Morrill, Paul J. DeHart |
| Publisher | VANDERBILT |
| Source Sets | Vanderbilt University Theses |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-03262012-133734/ |
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