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1. Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture: Volume > 24 > Issue: 1
David Paul Deavel Preface: A Classic for All Times: Manzoni’s The Betrothed
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Philip A. Rolnick Veiling and Revealing: Ancient Myth and Christian Grace in C. S. Lewis’s Till We Have Faces
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Paul Treschow “You Aren’t You, Are You?”: Transhumanism, the Person, and the Resurrection in Black Mirror’s “Be Right Back”
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In this article I consider the failed resurrection of the beloved in “Be Right Back” in conversation with Christian doctrine surroundingChrist’s resurrection. I contend that the resurrected Ash is insufficient for Martha because he is not a “person,” intendingwith that term to evoke the Catholic personalist movement, particularly as outlined by Jacques Maritain. I begin with an outlineof Maritain’s personalism and then discuss the Enlightenment conception of the self that Charles Taylor has called “the ‘punctual’self ” and its relation to transhumanism. These competing accounts of personhood frame a discussion of “Be Right Back,” in whichI contend that the resurrected Ash is a hyperpunctual self and that his lack of personality makes true loving exchange between himand Martha impossible. Finally, I draw on Augustine’s teaching on the Resurrection and the New Testament resurrection accountsthemselves to consider how Christ’s Resurrection affirms the centrality of persons and love, fulfilling the desire for a resurrection ofthe beloved’s person that is implicit in the critiques of a nonpersonalist resurrection in “Be Right Back.”
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Martin Lockerd, Aaron Miller Death in Venice and the Specter of Christ
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Timothy Fortin Reciprocal Generativity: Reason, Intimacy, and Sexual Difference
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Daniel Frampton Objectifying the Unknown: The Catholic Art of Graham Sutherland
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Contributor Notes
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