Tag: Denial

  • The Question of Mimesis and Peter’s Denial

    For the first time in the history of theorizing about literature and art, certain traditional notions have lost their prestige. Mimesis is one. Our modern idea of esthetic creation as mimesis, as a process of imitation, goes back to Aristotle who really borrowed it from Plato, although in Plato esthetic

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  • The Jewish Denial of Christ: Blindness or Insight?

    From Disputation to Dialogue: Past the Stumbling Block In 1863 Abraham Geiger, the leading rabbi of liberal Judaism in Germany, described the liberating role of scholarly study in the area of religious studies: “The deepest contents of all the spiritual movements is scholarship. Where scholarship turns with its power it

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