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- Title
Absent Fathers, Invisible Mothers, and the Theological Dance of Knowledge and Love.
- Authors
Huebner, Chris K.
- Abstract
This article explores the relationship between knowledge and love through an encounter with the mode of drama. The allegorical martyrdom drama Sapientia written by Hrotsvit of Gandersheim in the tenth century, which suggests that the theological virtues inform a particular vision of knowledge, is brought into conversation with Stanley Cavell’s reading of Shakespeare’s King Lear. Where Sapientia elaborates a theological vision of knowledge as a work of love, Lear dramatizes the tragic consequences that can arise when love is viciously distorted. After examining Cavell’s account of the relationship of knowledge and love, as well as his claim that modern epistemology is often beset by a form of mother-denial, the article concludes with suggestions for how the theological dance of knowledge and love might be conceived in a Mennonite context.
- Subjects
THEORY of knowledge (Religion); LOVE in Christianity; SAPIENTIA (Play)
- Publication
Conrad Grebel Review, 2021, Vol 39, Issue 3, p192
- ISSN
0829-044X
- Publication type
Article