Glenn W. Most. The Finger in the Wound: The Stories of Doubting Thomas. Piccola Biblioteca Einaudi n.429
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Glenn W. Most.
The Finger in the Wound: The Stories of Doubting Thomas.
Small Einaudi Library n.429.
Volume in more than good condition.
About the apostle Thomas, everyone knows - or thinks they know - that he stuck his finger in Jesus' side. But did he really do it? An in-depth examination of the Gospel of John reveals how little we actually understand about the most enigmatic of biblical figures, and how much the strange metamorphoses that his story has undergone over time could teach us. Starting from the New Testament, Glenn W. Most reconstructs the transformations of Thomas over the centuries: dark twin of Jesus, Gnostic saint, missionary in India, hero of skepticism and negative example of disbelief, blasphemy and violence. Rich in paradoxes and tensions, these creative transformations operated by narrators, theologians and artists reveal to us the complex interweaving of relationships between the texts and their interpretations and the mysterious mechanisms of faith, love and personal identity. Starting from the deciphering of the twentieth chapter of the Gospel of John, compared with the conclusions of the Synoptics, the book ends with a detailed analysis of the painting dedicated by Caravaggio to Doubting Thomas, passing through the pictorial traditions of late antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Along this path, the author takes into consideration the reactions to John's story by interpreters of different philosophical and religious backgrounds, and the theological-Christian readings from the century to the Counter-Reformation, showing how the story of Thomas confronts the fundamental questions of religion, philosophy, hermeneutics and, ultimately, life.
Summary:
Preface. Part One. Textual Bases. Part Two. Answers and Developments. Conclusion. - Bibliographical Essays.
Glenn W. Most, professor of Greek Philology at the Scuola Normale di Pisa since 2000, has taught at several universities. He published Reading Raphael: The School of Athens and its Pretext (2001) at Einaudi.
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