Theologians ignore the work of German philosopher and sociologist Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1888-1973), despite his major contributions to Christian thought. In this volume, Peter J. Leithart shows why that neglect is a mistake, considering Rosenstock-Huessy's thoughts on the soul, time, the cross, and more.
About the Author :
Peter J. Leithart is President of the Theopolis Institute in Birmingham, Alabama, and Teacher at Trinity Presbyterian Church. He is author of a number of books, including Creator (IVP). He and his wife, Noel, have ten children and fifteen grandchildren.
Review :
"Dr. Peter J. Leithart's I Respond Though I Shall Be Changed: Essays on the Thought of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy is an invaluable collection of meditations upon a thinker who, if remembered at all, is mainly known for being Franz Rosenzweig's teacher and interlocutor. Leithart's book is a powerful reminder of why Rosenstock-Huessy is one of the most important thinkers for making sense of our time."
Wayne Cristaudo, author of Religion, Redemption and Revolution: The New Speech Thinking of Franz Rosenzweig and Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
"It will be a delight for devotees of Rosenstock-Huessy's work to see Peter Leithart's various writings on this profound and original thinker brought together in one volume. Topics central to Rosenstock-Huessy's assertive texts on God, man, and the world--such as grammar, time and space, revolution, death, apocalypse, speech--are given enlightening treatment in this important new book.
"Rosenstock-Huessy's output was so vast and varied, we can hardly expect a comprehensive assessment. Readers will thus welcome this singular approach to a slice of the whole, characterized prominently as an effort that integrates Rosenstock-Huessy's expressly Christian writings with his work in which Christianity is only implicit. Rosenstock-Huessy would dismiss with contempt any supposed chasm between religion and the "world."
"In this spirit, Leithart favorably compares Rosenstock-Huessy's original contributions to sociology, history, linguistics, theology, and so forth with the work of other writers far more widely known than he is--Norbert Elias, Jacques Derrida, Robert Jenson, Alain Badiou, et al.--comparative investigations that we are much in need of."
Norman Fiering, a historian of early American thought, was Director and Librarian of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University for twenty-three years.
