%0 Journal Article %T Charred Root of Meaning: Rupture and Continuity in Christian Tradition %A Philipp W. Rosemann %J Irish Theological Quarterly %@ 1752-4989 %D 2019 %R 10.1177/0021140018815856 %X Until very recently, the theological literature approached tradition almost exclusively as a phenomenon of continuity. But tradition involves several forms of rupture, both in its beginning and in its development. This paper distinguishes four: irruption (of the divine), forgetting, ¡®destruction¡¯ (together with retrieval/repetition), and exclusion. The argument draws on philosophers such as Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, and Jean-Luc Marion, but it is scripturally rooted and finds confirmation in Christian authors like Denys the Carthusian, Martin Luther, and Henri de Lubac %K foolishness of the Cross %K incident at Antioch %K Mount Sinai %K mystical body %K tradition %U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0021140018815856