Figurative Cuts. Circumcision in premodern Christianity

比喻性的削减。

• 批准号: 403801124
• 负责人: Dr. Thomas Lentes (†)
• 金额: --
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2017-12-31 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/403801124?language=en
• 关键词: Figurative; Cuts.; Circumcision; premodern; Christianity

The 2012 political debate on circumcision proves that religious body marks even in secular societies could become the very focus in discourses on cultural identity and distinction. The project takes this observation as its starting point: From the Middle Ages until the early modern period the project outlines Christian patterns of interpreting and representing the Jewish ritual of circumcision; methodologically based in image theology and cultural history, anthropology and history of religions.Though Christianity has suspended circumcision as a ritual of initiation since the first century it has remained broadly present in Christian imagination until modern times: The Christian year started with the feast of the circumcision of Christ, the holy prepuce of Christ was venerated as one the most sacred relics, in exegesis circumcision served as a core hermeneutic figure justifying the Christian figurative mode of exegesis and in sacramental theology circumcision served as model of pre-Christian and Christian sacraments.Thus, circumcision can be considered as the lasting Jewish cut in Christian imagination. In exegesis and sacramental theology, liturgy and meditation literature the Jewish ritual survived as an essential part of Christian identity and self-definition, not at least in relationship to Judaism.Its latency, continuation and adaptation in Christianity based on a permanent medial and figurative recoding: from body mark to a hermeneutic figure, from circumcision of the body to metaphor (e.g. as circumcision of the heart), and from ritual to argument.Focusing on medieval and early modern artistic representations of the circumcision the project elaborates different visual models coping with problems of identity and distinction: such as continuity and discontinuity between Judaism and Christianity, exclusion and inclusion of Christians and non-Christians, of orthodoxy and heresy, body and spirit, outer and inner man.Aimed is a research monography also attracting a wider audience.

2012年关于割礼的政治辩论证明，即使在世俗社会，宗教身体标志也可能成为文化身份和区别话语的焦点。该项目以这一观察为出发点：从中世纪到近代早期，该项目概述了基督教解释和代表犹太割礼仪式的模式;方法论基础上的图像神学和文化史，虽然基督教自第一世纪以来就暂停了割礼作为一种入会仪式，但它仍然广泛地存在于基督教的想象中。直到现代：基督教的一年开始于基督的割礼节，基督的神圣包皮被尊为最神圣的遗物之一，在解经中，割礼是解释学的核心人物，证明了基督教解经的比喻模式，在圣礼神学中，割礼是前基督教和基督教圣礼的典范。因此，割礼可以被认为是基督教想象中持久的犹太切割。在释经和圣事神学、礼拜仪式和冥想文学中，犹太仪式作为基督徒身份和自我定义的重要组成部分而幸存下来，至少不是与犹太教的关系。它在基督教中的潜伏、延续和适应基于一种永久的媒介和比喻性的重新编码：从身体的标记到解释学的形象，从身体的割礼到隐喻（如心脏的割礼），从仪式到争论。该项目专注于中世纪和早期现代割礼的艺术表现，阐述了处理身份和区别问题的不同视觉模型：如犹太教和基督教之间的连续性和不连续性，基督徒和非基督徒的排斥和包容，正统和异端，身体和精神，外部和内部的人。