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Title: | Myth and Metaphysics in the Fourth Gospel: A Dialectical Approach to John's Gospel |
Authors: | Bernier, Jonathan |
Advisor: | Runesson, Anders |
Department: | Religious Sciences |
Keywords: | Religion;Religion |
Publication Date: | 2006 |
Abstract: | <p>This thesis is an experiment in using Fredric Jameson's dialectical Marxist henneneutics, particularly as articulated in his The Political Unconscious, to read a specific New Testament text, the Prologue to the Gospel of John. The Prologue shall be read through three semantic horizons: the literary, the narrowly social and the broadly economic. It will be argued that the Prologue contains a co-occurrence of mythic narrative and metaphysical discourse; that this co-occurrence of mythic narrative and metaphysical discourse can be understood as a result of the co-o1ccurrence of lower and higher social strata within early Christian communities; and that this co-occurrence of lower and higher social strata can itself be understand as the: vestigial presence of formerly dominant modes of production within the mode of production that dominated the broader historical context in which these communities were located.</p> |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/10574 |
Identifier: | opendissertations/5610 6632 2120303 |
Appears in Collections: | Open Access Dissertations and Theses |
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