The Messianic Disruption of Trinitarian Theology by Kornel Za... - 9780739131503

The Messianic Disruption of Trinitarian TheologyAuthor(s): Kornel Zathureczky\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Lexington Books\nISBN-13: 9780739131503, 978-0739131503\nSynopsis\nThe unsettling context of late modernity, a terrain of an infinite fragmentation of life, poses a challenge to Christianity to rearticulate its defining doctrine of the Trinity. Christianity's initial messianic weaknessin that its canonical writings attest to a universal message of redemption for the victims of Empirewas subverted into the strong theology of the Empire. This book demonstrates that Trinitarian discourse was profoundly implicated in this development as it essentially absorbed and took the bite out of the messianic language of the early Christian movement. Zathureczky proposes a retrieval of the messianic discourse of Christianity by way of recapturing its redemptive weakness. Relying on an elective affinity between Walter Benjamin's messianism and.