Title Opus Dei : an archaeology of duty / Giorgio Agamben ; translated by Adam Kotsko.

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Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2013.

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Description	1 online resource (pages cm).
Series	Meridian : crossing aesthetics
	Meridian (Stanford, Calif.)
Note	"Originally published in Italian under the title Opus Dei. Archaeologia dell'ufficio."
	Print version record.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-140).
Contents	Liturgy and politics -- From mystery to effect -- A genealogy of office -- The two ontologies, or, How duty entered into ethics.
Summary	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 and more a pure instrument of God's power, so that his own motives and character are entirely indifferent as long as he carries out his priestly.
Subject	Liturgics.
	Duty.
	Ontology.
	RELIGION -- Christian Rituals & Practice -- Worship & Liturgy.
	RELIGION -- Institutions & Organizations.
	Duty. (OCoLC)fst00899897
	Liturgics. (OCoLC)fst01000579
	Ontology. (OCoLC)fst01045995
	Opus Dei (Society)
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	Kotsko, Adam, translator.
Added Title	Opus Dei. English
Other Form:	Print version: 9780804784030 0804784035 (DLC) 2013007602
ISBN	0804788561 (electronic bk.)
	9780804788564 (electronic bk.)

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