TY - CHAP
T1 - A Christian Crisis of Modernity
T2 - Intellectual Confrontations with and within Christianity at the Time of Kafka
AU - Wolfe, Judith
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - This chapter offers some theological background material to encourage and equip Kafka scholars to interpret the quasi-religious quality of Kafka’s work not as a straightforward ›secularisation‹ of religious concerns (as has been as popular in Kafka studies), but against the background of the internal complexity of religion itself. The chapter opens with a summary of recent criticisms of the ›secularization thesis‹ by philosophers, historians and literary biographers. It then discusses some key tensions inherent in the Judeo-Christian tradition: between history and metaphysics, and between immanent and transcendent aspects of divinity. These tensions defined some of the most interesting intellectual conflicts of modernity, and are creatively engaged by Kafka.
AB - This chapter offers some theological background material to encourage and equip Kafka scholars to interpret the quasi-religious quality of Kafka’s work not as a straightforward ›secularisation‹ of religious concerns (as has been as popular in Kafka studies), but against the background of the internal complexity of religion itself. The chapter opens with a summary of recent criticisms of the ›secularization thesis‹ by philosophers, historians and literary biographers. It then discusses some key tensions inherent in the Judeo-Christian tradition: between history and metaphysics, and between immanent and transcendent aspects of divinity. These tensions defined some of the most interesting intellectual conflicts of modernity, and are creatively engaged by Kafka.
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 9783826054518
T3 - Oxford Kafka Studies
BT - Kafka, Religion and Modernity
PB - Königshausen & Neumann
CY - Würzburg
ER -