Corporal knowledge: early Christian bodies
At the heart of the Christian proclamation is the problematic body of Jesus: problematic because His crucified form conveyed shame rather than glory, problematic because Christian communities argued about whether Jesus' body shared in the corruptible and tactile qualities of other human bodies....
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford New York [u.a.]
Oxford Univ. Press
2010
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| In: | Year: 2010 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: GLANCY, JENNIFER A., Corporal Knowledge: Early Christian Bodies] (2011) (Clark, Elizabeth A.)
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bodiliness
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B Bodiliness / Biblical theology / Patristic theology B Bodiliness / Christianity / History 30-430 |
| Further subjects: | B
Human Body
Religious aspects
Christianity
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| Summary: | At the heart of the Christian proclamation is the problematic body of Jesus: problematic because His crucified form conveyed shame rather than glory, problematic because Christian communities argued about whether Jesus' body shared in the corruptible and tactile qualities of other human bodies. Jesus' message-bearing body is not the only storytelling body we encounter in early Christian writings. Paul, for example, invited recipients of his letters to read the gospel story in his scarred body. In the second and early third centuries, Christians argued about the perpetual virginity of the body of Mary, the mother of Jesus, and those on both sides of the question saw Mary's body as a meaningful, expressive matrix. Jennifer Glancy argues that ordinary Christians, like others in the Roman Empire, saw all human bodies as expressing such things as social status and gender, honor and abjection. All human bodies were matrices of communication. Glancy draws on a variety of theoretical approaches, particularly the practice-oriented theory of Pierre Bourdieu and the corporal phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, to explore what early Christians understood bodies to communicate. Among the specific examples she considers are those of Jesus, Mary, and Paul, those of the entire class of people held in slavery, and those subjected to torture. |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 165-179. - Index |
| ISBN: | 0195328159 |