St. Matthew Passion by Hans Blumenberg -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

The Horizon

Pacing Off the Horizon The One Author of the One Story The Beginning of Wisdom Relief—or Even More? The Theological Generosity of the St. Matthew Passion Saving the ‘Implied Listener’ from Historical Reason The Metaphorical Horizon

The Ransom The Lamb

And the Listening Never Ends

An Apostrophe Goethe Could Not Understand Imagining Nietzsche Listening to the St. Matthew Passion Listening to Rilke as He Listens to the St. Matthew Passion Wittgenstein’s Mother

‘Never Will This Child Be Crucified …’

Escalations of a God

If It Was This One, It Can Be No Other An Aesthetics of Creation: How It Justifies the Existence of the World God Refuses to Be Transparent Time and Again: What Happened in Paradise? The Magnification of God The Work of the Patriarchs and the Work of Music Abraham’s Fear of God Thought to the End: The Lamb, Not the Ram

Corporeality

The Incarnation of the Word as an Offense to the Angels Countermove: The Angel of the Annunciation God’s Entanglement in the World Since When Am I? Since When Was This One? Why So Late? A Fulfilled Promise

Apostates

The Comic Element of Simon Peter The Denial Becomes Defamation The One Driven by Great Expectations When Someone Becomes Too Old to Reach for Dominion Visit to a Stone That Almost Cried Out The Realism of the Field of Blood The Pieces of Silver

Between Two Murderers

Jesus’s Susceptibility to Temptation Barabbas and the Authentic Words of Jesus The ‘Two Murderers’ on Golgotha ‘He Calls for Elijah!’ The Primal Scream Theological Defense and Human Recovery No Martyrdom The Last Word in the Passion of Saint John The Witness of the Fourth Evangelist

The Tears

‘We Sit Down in Tears …’ Unto the Sealed Tomb Tears of the Father, Only to Be Thought Paul Weeps The Power of Tears over Omnipotence

The Imperceptibility of the Messiah

Caravaggio’s Emmaus Traces From the Unwritten A Misinterpreted Agraphon The Messianic: Prophet and Sybil The Risk of Still Waiting for the Messiah Messianic Minimalism The Desperate Messianism of the Second Rome The Sin That Cannot Be Forgiven Remembering Origen

The Excesses of the Philosophers’ God Translators’ Afterword Notes