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Laughter at the Foot of the Cross
Michael A. Screech
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Description for Laughter at the Foot of the Cross
Paperback. Offers a collection of fifty-three essays. This book reveals, the question of whether laughter is acceptable to the god of the Old and New Testaments is a dangerous one. It shows that Renaissance thinkers revived ancient ideas about what inspires laughter and whether it could ever truly be innocent. Num Pages: 352 pages, 4 line drawings. BIC Classification: HRAB; HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 27. Weight in Grams: 470.
"Christian laughter is a maze: you could easily get snarled up within it." So says Michael A. Screech in his note to readers preceding this collection of fifty-three elegant and pithy essays. As Screech reveals, the question of whether laughter is acceptable to the god of the Old and New Testaments is a dangerous one. But we are fortunate in our guide: drawing on his immense knowledge of the classics and of humanists like Erasmus and Rabelais - who used Plato and Aristotle to interpret the Gospels - and incorporating the thoughts of Aesop, Calvin, Lucian of Samosata, Luther, Socrates, ... Read more
"Christian laughter is a maze: you could easily get snarled up within it." So says Michael A. Screech in his note to readers preceding this collection of fifty-three elegant and pithy essays. As Screech reveals, the question of whether laughter is acceptable to the god of the Old and New Testaments is a dangerous one. But we are fortunate in our guide: drawing on his immense knowledge of the classics and of humanists like Erasmus and Rabelais - who used Plato and Aristotle to interpret the Gospels - and incorporating the thoughts of Aesop, Calvin, Lucian of Samosata, Luther, Socrates, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
470g
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226245119
SKU
V9780226245119
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About Michael A. Screech
Michael A. Screech is an emeritus fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.
Reviews for Laughter at the Foot of the Cross
"Lavishly erudite, digressive.... Screech commands the intellectual and literary history of the sixteenth century.... The finished book is a provocative, wide-ranging work of cultural history." (Times Literary Supplement)