Format:
X, 302 Seiten
,
24 cm
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
0199641439
,
9780199641437
Content:
How did people think about listening in the ancient world, and what evidence do we have of it in practice? The Christian faith came to the illiterate majority in the early Church through their ears. This proved problematic: the senses and the body had long been held in suspicion as all too temporal, mutable and distracting. Carol Harrison argues that despite profound ambivalence on these matters, in practice, the senses, and in particular the sense of hearing, were ultimately regarded as necessary - indeed salvific -constraints for fallen human beings. By examining early catechesis, preaching and prayer, she demonstrates that what illiterate early Christians heard both formed their minds and souls and, above all, enabled them to become `literate` listeners; able not only to grasp the rule of faith but also tacitly to follow the infinite variations on it which were played out in early Christian teaching, exegesis and worship. It becomes clear that listening to the faith was less a matter of rationally appropriating facts and more an art which needed to be constantly practiced: for what was heard could not be definitively fixed and pinned down, but was ultimately the Word of the unknowable, transcendent God. This word demanded of early Christian listeners a response - to attend to its echoes, recollect and represent it, stretch out towards it source, and in the process
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-293) and index
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Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
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Introduction: voices of the pageFirst impromptu: The other side of language or 'listening to the voice of being' -- pt. 1. Au auditory culture. Listening in cultural context -- Rhetoric and the art of listening -- Images and echoes -- pt. 2. Theme and variations. Catechesis: sounding the theme -- Second impromptu: Playing ball: the art of reception -- Preaching: variations on the theme -- Third impromptu: Singing the blues -- pt. 3. From listening to hearing. The polyphony of prayer -- From the bottom to the bottomless.
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Harrison, Carol The art of listening in the early church Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013 ISBN 9780191755651
Language:
English
Subjects:
Theology
Keywords:
Zuhören
;
Geistliches Leben
;
Frühchristentum
