PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Bradley H. McLean is Professor of New Testament Language and Literature at Knox College, University of Toronto, Canada.
McLean's book has something for everyone. Scholars of Early Christianity will find here an array of conceptual tools that will no doubt open up new insights into the origins of the Christ machines. Scholars of Deleuze and Guattari will find excellent examples of the coupling of their literary machine to the texts and practices of Christ groups in the first three centuries BCE. And everyone else will find an introduction to both fields that is accessible and fun to read. --F. LeRon Shults, Professor at the Institute for Global Development and Social Planning, University of Agder, Norway This book uses the work of Deleuze and Guattari - specifically the concept of the rhizome - rethink and retheorize approaches to the history of the emergence of Christianity. In doing so, it also takes us deep into the expanded universe of Deleuze and Guattari's thought. --Ian Buchanan, Editor of Deleuze and Guattari Studies and Professor of Critical and Cultural Theory, University of Wollongong, Australia McLean provides us with a much-needed Deleuzian voice for reading Early Christian literature. Whereas scholarship often interprets Early Christian literature with unspoken philosophical assumptions, McLean explicitly combines Deleuzian concepts (multiplicity, machines, the body without organs, deterritorialization, becoming-woman) with this literature, offering new, relevant, and challenging assemblages. --Matthew G. Whitlock, Associate Professor, Theology and Religious Studies, Seattle University, USA
