About the Book
Matthew's "Gospel" reveals little about the three wealthy visitors said to have presented gifts to the infant Jesus. Yet hundreds of generations of Christians have embellished that image of the Three Kings or Magi for a myriad of social and political as well as spiritual purposes. Here, Richard Trexler closely examines how this story has been interpreted and used throughout the centuries. Biblically, "The Journey of the Magi" presents a positive image of worldly power, depicting the faithful in progress toward their God and conveying the importance of the gift-giving laity as legitimators of their deity. With this in mind, Trexler explains in particular how Western societies have molded the story to describe and augment their own power - before the infant God and among themselves. The author demonstrates how the magi as a group functioned in Christian society.
For example, magi plays, processions, and images taught people how to pray and behave in reverential contexts; they featured monarchs and heads of republics who enacted the roles of the magi to legitimate their rule; and they constrained native Americans to fall in line behind the magi to instill in them loyalty toward the European world order. However, Trexler also shows these philosopher-kings as competitive among each other, as were groups of different ages, races, and genders in society at large. Originally modeled on representations of the Roman triumphs, the magi have reached the present day as street children wearing crowns of cardboard, proving again the universality of the image for constructing, reinforcing, and even challenging a social hierarchy.
Table of Contents:
| | List of Illustrations |
| Ch. 1 | The Star Arrives |
| Ch. 2 | The True Light Shines in the Darkness |
| Ch. 3 | The Pageant of the "Two" Kings |
| Ch. 4 | El Dorado |
| Ch. 5 | The Ancien Regime of the Magi |
| Ch. 6 | Return by Another Way |
| | Conclusion |
| | Notes |
| | Bibliography |
| | Index
Review :
Richard Trexler's exhaustive study of the Magi through the centuries is a sociological exploration of the diverse functions that the Magi perform in many different cultural worlds. Painstakingly, he has followed up a host of references to the Magi in art and literature, plays and folk traditions, from the early Church through Constantine to the Middle Ages and the early modern period... Theology
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Product Details - ISBN-13: 9780691011264
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publisher Imprint: Princeton University Press
- Height: 254 mm
- No of Pages: 328
- Series Title: Princeton Legacy Library
- Weight: 624 gr
- ISBN-10: 0691011265
- Publisher Date: 12 Jun 1997
- Binding: Hardback
- Language: English
- Returnable: Y
- Sub Title: Meanings in History of a Christian Story
- Width: 197 mm
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