Writing Faith

<p>In <b>Writing Faith</b> Timothy Stanley provides a novel reevaluation of Jacques Derridas deconstructive account of writing. Derridas various essays on writing's materiality in books scrolls typewriters and digital displays briefly touched on the question of religion. At times he directed his attention to the mediatic nature of Christianity. However such comments have rarely been applied to formal aspects of religious texts. In response this book investigates the rise of the Christian codex in its second-to-fifth-century-CE Jewish and Greco-Roman contexts. By better understanding the religious nature of this technical development it becomes possible to reframe writing's coincidence with faith.</p>