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'More things in heaven and earth ...': The theological aufhebung of Roland Boer
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posted on 2013-01-01, 00:00 authored by Matthew SharpeAbstract: A great philosopher once wrote that 'some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested'. The five volumes of Roland Boer's magisterial series Marxism and Theology may well be all three. Certainly, there is too much in the series to be digested in any one review study. Nevertheless, in what follows, we will attempt in small measure the impossible: first setting out the basic methodological and exegetical claims of the series as we see them (I), before commenting on what we take to be Boer's own theses, constructed on the basis of this remarkable, almost-Baconian 'natural history' of Marxist and post-Marxist texts on theology (II). In Part III, taking up some of the essay's opening, framing remarks, we will pose some reflections on the significance of Boer's study and its place within the widely touted 'return to religion' today, as well as the peculiar physiognomy and reasons for this 'return'.
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Arena journalIssue
41/42Pagination
28 - 58Publisher
Arena Printing and PublicationsLocation
Fitzroy, Vic.ISSN
1320-6567Language
engGrant ID
DP120104085Publication classification
C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2013, Arena Printing and PublicationsUsage metrics
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