The Guide to Gethsemane
Subtitle: Anxiety, Suffering, Death
Edition: First edition
Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 6 November 2018
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Translated from: fre
Translation of: Le passeur de Gethsémani: angoisse, souffrance et mort
Format: eBook
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 978-0-8232-8198-5
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Jesus christ, passion; Death, religious aspects; Philosophy and religion
Description: Already widely debated upon its publication in French, this book offers a provocative account of Christ's Passion in terms not of faith but of a "credible Christianity" that can remain meaningful to nonbelievers.

For Falque, anxiety, suffering, and death are not simply the "ills" of our society but the essential horizon of what we confront as humans. Doubtful of Heidegger's famous statement that the notion of salvation renders Christians unable authentically to experience anxiety in the face of death, Falque explores the Passion with a radical emphasis on the physicality and corporeality of Christ's suffering and death, and on continuities with the mortality of our bodies. Written in the wake of a friend's death, Falques's study is theologically and philosophically rigorous, yet engagingly written and deeply humane.

—description from <cite>JSTOR</cite>