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Deleuze, Guattari and the Machine in Early Christianity: Schizoanalysis, Affect and Multiplicity

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Availability:In StockContributor:Bradley H. McLeanPublish date:2024-02-22Pages:262
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9781350233881ISBN-10:1350233889UPC:9781350233881Book Category:Philosophy, ReligionBook Subcategory:Religious, Christian Theology, PhilosophyBook Topic:HistorySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.55 inchesWeight:0.8311Product ID:SCVZMT55FY

Expanding the impact of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's philosophy to the disciplines of Christian Origins and Christian theology, this original study makes the case for understanding early Christianity through such Deleuzioguattarian concepts as the 'rhizome', the 'machine', the 'body without organs' and the 'multiplicity', using the theoretical tool of schizoanalysis to do so.

The reconstruction of the historical emergence of early Christianity, Bradley H. McLean argues, has been constrained by traditional assumptions about its historical and transcendental origins. These assumptions are ill-suited to theorizing the genesis, change and transformation of early Christianity in the first three centuries of the Common Era. To capture the dynamism of early Christianity, McLean applies Guattari's concept of the 'machine', to the analysis of early Christianity. Arguing that machines are both an unnoticed dimension of early Christianity, and a major analytical tool for the discipline, McLean highlights the potential of the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari to challenge and reconfigure not just our knowledge of early Christianity, but all aspects of Hellenistic Judaism, and the Greco-Roman world, as well as our understanding of Jesus of Nazareth and the Jesus movement.

By subverting the concept of a single transcendental or historical origin of Christianity, this book facilitates new forms of dialogue and cooperation between Christians and co-religionists.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9781350233881ISBN-10:1350233889UPC:9781350233881Book Category:Philosophy, ReligionBook Subcategory:Religious, Christian Theology, PhilosophyBook Topic:HistorySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.55 inchesWeight:0.8311Product ID:SCVZMT55FY

Bradley H. McLean is Professor of New Testament Language and Literature at Knox College, University of Toronto, Canada.


Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

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