History and Presence
Robert A. Orsi
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History and Presence
Robert A. Orsi
About This Book
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year Beginning with metaphysical debates in the sixteenth century over the nature of Christ's presence in the host, the distinguished historian and scholar of religion Robert Orsi imagines an alternative to the future of religion that early moderns proclaimed was inevitable."Orsi's evoking of the full reality of the holy in the world is extremely moving, shot through with wonder and horror."
âCaroline Walker Bynum, Common Knowledge "This is a meticulously researched, humane, and deeply challenging book. The men and women studied in this book do not belong to 'a world we have lost.' They belong to a world we have lost sight of."
âPeter Brown, Princeton University"[A] brilliant, theologically sophisticated exploration of the Catholic experience of God's presence through the material world⊠On every levelâfrom its sympathetic, honest, and sometimes moving ethnography to its astute analytical observationsâthis book is a scholarly masterpiece."
âA. W. Klink, Choice "Orsi recaptures God's breaking into the world ⊠The book does an excellent job of explaining both the difficulties and values inherent in recognizing God in the world."
â Publishers Weekly "This book is classic Orsi: careful, layered, humane, and subtleâŠa thought-provoking, expertly arranged tour of precisely those abundant, excessive phenomena which scholars have historically found so difficult to think."
âSonja Anderson, Reading Religion