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Writing Faith

  • Hardback
  • 154 pages
  • Publisher: Fortress Press,U.S.
  • 15.3 x 23.2 x 1.6 cm

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For scholars interested in the history of Christian texts

Uncovers the transition from scroll to codex in Christianity

You will gain new insights into faith's relationship with media

Writing Faith explores the link between writing and Christian faith through history.

Current digital transformations of information technology have given rise to an explosion of scholarly interest in the history of the book. Although this research has focused predominantly on the rise of movable type after Gutenberg, the second-to-fifth-century-CE transition from scroll to codex warrants renewed attention. Here, a peculiar footnote comes to the fore: Christians were early adopters of the codex for their sacred scriptures. In Writing Faith, Timothy Stanley begins with a novel investigation into Jacques Derrida's unanswered question concerning the mediatic nature of Christianity. There, the relationship between writing and faith comes into sharper focus. It is in this light that the codex's cosmopolitan capacity for transmitting the written word can be re-evaluated in its scrolled Greco-Roman and Jewish bibliographic contexts. Christian faith is bound up in this technical development, and can inform how religious mediation is understood after Derrida. Writing Faith aims to recover vital questions for today's digital times.
Writing Faith and Protestant Metaphysics after Karl Barth and Martin Heidegger
Protestant Metaphysics after Karl Barth and Martin HeideggerWriting Faith

  • Title

    Writing Faith

  • Author

    Timothy Stanley

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Fortress Press,U.S.

  • Published

    February 2017

  • Weight

    386g

  • Page Count

    154

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 23.2 x 1.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9781506423388

  • ISBN-10

    1506423388

  • Eden Code

    4501005

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