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Article: The Johannine Christianity of Albert Camus
Title | The Johannine Christianity of Albert Camus |
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Issue Date | 2011 |
Publisher | Routledge. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/routledge/14735784.asp |
Citation | Culture, Theory And Critique, 2011, v. 52 n. 2-3, p. 145-161 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Taking its cue from the rather strange book by the Protestant Minister Mumma Albert Camus and the Minister, which claims that shortly before he died Camus wished to be baptised, this paper reopens the case of Camus and Christianity. All Camus' public pronouncements on Christianity indicate he had more differences with Christians than common interests - although there had always been Christians who saw a fellow spirit in Camus, not least in his depiction of Christian fanatics. Moreover, Camus himself insisted upon the need for a pagan revival, and he tended to represent Christians, along with Marxists, as metaphysically obsessed with the future at the expense of life here and now. This paper argues that Camus' representation of paganism was more mythic than real, and that his writing is far more in keeping with what the Jewish philosopher Franz Rosenzweig, picking up on Schelling's term, called Johannine Christianity. Such a form of Christianity, whose founding father is Goethe, is a post-Protestant, 'wall-less', non-institutional, symbol-less faith in hope that remains true to the command to love the neighbour. © 2011 Taylor and Francis Group, LLC. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/163652 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 0.7 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.239 |
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dc.contributor.author | Cristaudo, W | en_HK |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-09-20T07:49:42Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2012-09-20T07:49:42Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2011 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.citation | Culture, Theory And Critique, 2011, v. 52 n. 2-3, p. 145-161 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.issn | 1473-5784 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/163652 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Taking its cue from the rather strange book by the Protestant Minister Mumma Albert Camus and the Minister, which claims that shortly before he died Camus wished to be baptised, this paper reopens the case of Camus and Christianity. All Camus' public pronouncements on Christianity indicate he had more differences with Christians than common interests - although there had always been Christians who saw a fellow spirit in Camus, not least in his depiction of Christian fanatics. Moreover, Camus himself insisted upon the need for a pagan revival, and he tended to represent Christians, along with Marxists, as metaphysically obsessed with the future at the expense of life here and now. This paper argues that Camus' representation of paganism was more mythic than real, and that his writing is far more in keeping with what the Jewish philosopher Franz Rosenzweig, picking up on Schelling's term, called Johannine Christianity. Such a form of Christianity, whose founding father is Goethe, is a post-Protestant, 'wall-less', non-institutional, symbol-less faith in hope that remains true to the command to love the neighbour. © 2011 Taylor and Francis Group, LLC. | en_HK |
dc.language | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Routledge. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/routledge/14735784.asp | en_HK |
dc.relation.ispartof | Culture, Theory and Critique | en_HK |
dc.rights | PREPRINT This is a preprint of an article whose final and definitive form has been published in the [JOURNAL TITLE] [year of publication] [copyright Taylor & Francis]; [JOURNAL TITLE] is available online at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/ with the open URL of your article POSTPRINT ‘This is an electronic version of an article published in [include the complete citation information for the final version of the article as published in the print edition of the journal]. [JOURNAL TITLE] is available online at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/ with the open URL of your article. | en_US |
dc.title | The Johannine Christianity of Albert Camus | en_HK |
dc.type | Article | en_HK |
dc.identifier.openurl | http://library.hku.hk:4550/resserv?sid=HKU:IR&issn=1473-5784&volume=53&issue=2-3&spage=145&epage=161&date=2011&atitle=The+Johannine+Christianity+of+Albert+Camus | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Cristaudo, W: cristaud@hku.hk | en_HK |
dc.identifier.authority | Cristaudo, W=rp01226 | en_HK |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/14735784.2011.630889 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84859235981 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 210591 | en_US |
dc.relation.references | http://www.scopus.com/mlt/select.url?eid=2-s2.0-84859235981&selection=ref&src=s&origin=recordpage | en_HK |
dc.identifier.volume | 52 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.issue | 2-3 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.spage | 145 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.epage | 161 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000211650600003 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | en_HK |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Cristaudo, W=55163803700 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.issnl | 1473-5776 | - |