Fragmentation and memory
Subtitle: meditations on Christian doctrine
By: Karmen MacKendrick.
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780823229499; 9780823229505
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Doctrines; Baltimore catechism
Description: "With questions from the 1885 Baltimore Catechism of the Catholic Church as the starting point for each chapter, Karmen MacKendrick offers postmodern reflections on many of the central doctrines of the Church: the oneness of God, original sin, forgiveness, love and its connection to mortality, reverence for the relics of saints, and the doctrine of bodily resurrection. She maintains that we begin and end in questions and not in answers, in fragments and not in totalities - more precisely, in a fragmentation paradoxically integral to wholeness.".

"Taking seriously Augustine's idea that we find the divine in memory, MacKendrick argues that memory does not lead us back in time to a tidy answer but opens onto a complicated and fragmented time in which we find that the one and the many, before and after and now, even sacred and profane are complexly entangled. Time becomes something lived, corporeal, and sacred, with fragments of eternity interspersed among the stretches of its duration. Our sense of ourselves is correspondingly complex, because theological considerations lead us not to the security of an everlasting, indivisible soul dwelling comfortably in the presence of a paternal deity but to a more complicated, perpetually peculiar, and paradoxical life in the flesh."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The one and the many; title: The sin of origin; title: From trauma to revelation : forgiveness; title: Poppies and rosemary : love; title: Dismembered divinity : saints' relics; title: Eternal flesh : the resurrection of the body.