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The feast of fools; a theological essay on festivity and fantasy,
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The feast of fools; a theological essay on festivity and fantasy,

Author: Harvey Gallagher Cox
Publisher: Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1969.
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Cox defines festivity as the capacity for genuine revelry and joyous celebration and fantasy as the faculty for envisioning radically alternative life situations. He proposes that a revival of both feast and fantasy will rejuvenate modern spirtuality by imitating the medieval Feast of Fools, where spirtual life was celebrated while political church traditions were socially mocked and evaluated.
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Cox, Harvey Gallagher.
Feast of fools.
Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1969
(OCoLC)551556208
Online version:
Cox, Harvey Gallagher.
Feast of fools.
Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1969
(OCoLC)608213770
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Harvey Gallagher Cox
ISBN: 0674295250 9780674295254
OCLC Number: 30560
Description: xii, 204 p. 24 cm.
Contents: Festivity : the ingredients --
Festivity and the death of God --
Fantasy : the ingredients --
Fantasy and religion --
Fantasy and utopia --
Mystics and militants --
Beyond radical theology --
A theology of juxtaposition --
Christ the harlequin.
Responsibility: by Harvey Cox.

Abstract:

Cox defines festivity as the capacity for genuine revelry and joyous celebration and fantasy as the faculty for envisioning radically alternative life situations. He proposes that a revival of both feast and fantasy will rejuvenate modern spirtuality by imitating the medieval Feast of Fools, where spirtual life was celebrated while political church traditions were socially mocked and evaluated.

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by hytekswytek (WorldCat user on 2006-11-06)

Festivity : the ingredients -- Festivity and the death of God -- Fantasy : the ingredients -- Fantasy and religion -- Fantasy and utopia -- Mystics and militants -- Beyond radical theology -- A theology of juxtaposition -- Christ the harlequin.

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