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Title: Deep Comedy
Subtitle: Trinity, Tragedy, & Hope in Western Literature
Author: Peter J. Leithart
Narrator: Aaron Wells
Format: Unabridged
Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-15-18
Publisher: Canon Press
Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity
Publisher's Summary:
In this short but stimulating work, Peter Leithart draws upon insights from history, theology, philosophy, and literature to connect two of the most glorious and unique truths of Christianity - its hopeful eschatology and its doctrine of a dynamic, personal Trinity.
First, Leithart shows that the biblical view of history is essentially comic and hopeful, in contrast to the classical Greco-Roman view, which is essentially and irredeemably tragic. Then he develops the same point by examining Greek philosophy and its descendants (including postmodernism) in contrast to orthodox Trinitarian theology. Finally, he shows how the tragic and comic worldviews have been reflected in literature, with discussions of Greek epics and two Shakespearean plays. The result is a tour through 3000 years of intellectual history that celebrates the living power of orthodoxy.
Members Reviews:
A brilliant pastor/scholar who always has something interesting and important to ...
Anyone interested in philosophy and/or Christian theology would do well to read anything written by Leithart! A brilliant pastor/scholar who always has something interesting and important to say. I hope more will listen to him in the years to come. He has much to contribute to our conversations of faith, Bible, Christianity, theology, and philosophy.
Kindle version disgraceful
The one star is strictly for the formatting. The book, so far, seems to be excellent.
The Kindle version of this book is an absolute disgrace. It says things like, "The Christian God is a triune Cod," and "Fart I examines...." There are pages that I can barely read. I've always assumed that someone actually looks at books after they are electronically converted, but obviously this was not the case.
I bought the Kindle version because I found at the last minute that I need to read the book before Monday. That is the only reason that I'm not returning it.
awful Kindle edition
Formatting in Kindle Edition of this book looks like a failed OCR conversion to Word document. Simply awful.
Book itself gets 4 stars. Leithart presents a short literary essay examining classical Greco-Roman world-view using its literature as a showcase in contrast with writings influenced by truths of Christianity. Opposing Classic "tragedy" used as a story in which the characters begin well but slide inexorably to a bad end where "glorious" death awaits with "deep comedy" where the happy ending is uncontaminated by any fear of future tragedy and where characters do not simply end as well as they began, but progress beyond their beginning. Very insightful.
The Hilarity of the Gospel
This book aims at joy--nothing else. Joy is intensified in the despair of (post)modern life. Leithart also neatly connects joy (think comedy) with the Trinity. Leithart aims to show eschatological moments within the Trinity. And if these moments take place within space-time, then this book also aims at eschatology. An eschatology of hope.
The short thesis of this book is that Western literature moves from Tragedy to Comedy and from Comedy to Deep Comedy.
Beginning with Tragedy:
The pivotal work of ancient history is Homer. The Iliad--here Leithat defies convential terms--is a tragedy. Good people (well, protagonists anyway) gone bad. It is hard to find a happy ending to this story.
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Title: Deep Comedy
Subtitle: Trinity, Tragedy, & Hope in Western Literature
Author: Peter J. Leithart
Narrator: Aaron Wells
Format: Unabridged
Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-15-18
Publisher: Canon Press
Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity
Publisher's Summary:
In this short but stimulating work, Peter Leithart draws upon insights from history, theology, philosophy, and literature to connect two of the most glorious and unique truths of Christianity - its hopeful eschatology and its doctrine of a dynamic, personal Trinity.
First, Leithart shows that the biblical view of history is essentially comic and hopeful, in contrast to the classical Greco-Roman view, which is essentially and irredeemably tragic. Then he develops the same point by examining Greek philosophy and its descendants (including postmodernism) in contrast to orthodox Trinitarian theology. Finally, he shows how the tragic and comic worldviews have been reflected in literature, with discussions of Greek epics and two Shakespearean plays. The result is a tour through 3000 years of intellectual history that celebrates the living power of orthodoxy.
Members Reviews:
A brilliant pastor/scholar who always has something interesting and important to ...
Anyone interested in philosophy and/or Christian theology would do well to read anything written by Leithart! A brilliant pastor/scholar who always has something interesting and important to say. I hope more will listen to him in the years to come. He has much to contribute to our conversations of faith, Bible, Christianity, theology, and philosophy.
Kindle version disgraceful
The one star is strictly for the formatting. The book, so far, seems to be excellent.
The Kindle version of this book is an absolute disgrace. It says things like, "The Christian God is a triune Cod," and "Fart I examines...." There are pages that I can barely read. I've always assumed that someone actually looks at books after they are electronically converted, but obviously this was not the case.
I bought the Kindle version because I found at the last minute that I need to read the book before Monday. That is the only reason that I'm not returning it.
awful Kindle edition
Formatting in Kindle Edition of this book looks like a failed OCR conversion to Word document. Simply awful.
Book itself gets 4 stars. Leithart presents a short literary essay examining classical Greco-Roman world-view using its literature as a showcase in contrast with writings influenced by truths of Christianity. Opposing Classic "tragedy" used as a story in which the characters begin well but slide inexorably to a bad end where "glorious" death awaits with "deep comedy" where the happy ending is uncontaminated by any fear of future tragedy and where characters do not simply end as well as they began, but progress beyond their beginning. Very insightful.
The Hilarity of the Gospel
This book aims at joy--nothing else. Joy is intensified in the despair of (post)modern life. Leithart also neatly connects joy (think comedy) with the Trinity. Leithart aims to show eschatological moments within the Trinity. And if these moments take place within space-time, then this book also aims at eschatology. An eschatology of hope.
The short thesis of this book is that Western literature moves from Tragedy to Comedy and from Comedy to Deep Comedy.
Beginning with Tragedy:
The pivotal work of ancient history is Homer. The Iliad--here Leithat defies convential terms--is a tragedy. Good people (well, protagonists anyway) gone bad. It is hard to find a happy ending to this story.