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Paperback Opus Dei: An Archaeology of Duty Book

ISBN: 0804784043

ISBN13: 9780804784047

Opus Dei: An Archaeology of Duty

(Part of the Homo Sacer Series)

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In this follow-up to The Kingdom and the Glory and The Highest Poverty, Agamben investigates the roots of our moral concept of duty in the theory and practice of Christian liturgy. Beginning with the New Testament and working through to late scholasticism and modern papal encyclicals, Agamben traces the Church's attempts to repeat Christ's unrepeatable sacrifice. Crucial here is the paradoxical figure of the priest, who becomes more...

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