The Body in Mystery: The Political Theology of the Corpus Mysticum in the Literature of Reformation England . Jennifer R. Rust. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2014. Pp. xx+249.
2015; University of Chicago Press; Volume: 113; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1086/683314
ISSN1545-6951
Autores Tópico(s)Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
ResumoRust’s account moves well beyond anything the medievalist de Lubac might have imagined for the concept, passing from church prehistories through the Reformation and post-Reformation eras, with an emphasis on early modern martyr narratives, and Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus and Measure for Measure, on to Milton. This is less, however, the history of an idea than a teasing out of the displacements of an effect. If the socially crystallizing force of the sacrament is capable of translating itself across the seemingly insuperable barriers of Reformation and Revolution—if, for example, the Mass reiterates itself within John Foxe’s protonationalist and explicitly antiliturgical martyr narratives—that is because the corpus mysticum fulfills itself according to the negational logic of Christological (and Hegelian) sacrifice, where the “false church” endlessly underwrites the true. The affective contagion implied by such boundary crossing is inseparable from the performative hold of mystic community as such.
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