Body of Christ Incarnate for You: Conceptualizing God's Desire for the Flesh
Drawing on phenomenologies of the flesh and the erotic, this book provides a constructive approach to the incarnation. It offers a typology of critical themes addressed by the doctrine's history and considers how understanding the body in ways that break down the Enlightenment subject/object di...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Lanham, MD
Lexington Books
2016
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| In: | Year: 2016 |
| Series/Journal: | Studies in Body and Religion
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| Further subjects: | B
Incarnation - History of doctrines
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9781498522687 |
| Summary: | Drawing on phenomenologies of the flesh and the erotic, this book provides a constructive approach to the incarnation. It offers a typology of critical themes addressed by the doctrine's history and considers how understanding the body in ways that break down the Enlightenment subject/object distinction creates new avenues for understanding the incarnation. Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I: Inescapable Incarnational Themes -- 1 The Heritage of Chalcedon -- Unconfused & Unaltered -- Undivided & Unseparated -- Satisfactionary Atonement -- Communicatio and the Cross -- More than Repentance -- 2 The Eschatological Difference -- Elected and Electing -- Incarnation as Conclusion to Resurrection -- Inspiring Christopraxis -- Dialectical Dedication -- 3 Kenotic Absconding -- Self-Divestment -- Absolute Paradox -- Self-Emptying Privilege -- In/Direct Emulation -- 4 Overflowing Relationality -- A Coincidence of Opposites -- Desiring the New Being -- Erotic Power in a Mysterious Christa/Community -- Bodies of Flesh and Desire -- II: Bodies Beyond Dermal Metaphysics -- 5 Being-With in the Flesh -- Hyperdialectic -- Phenomenological Reduction -- Chiasmic Flesh -- Being-With -- 6 Jesus in the Flesh -- Christology as the Incarnation of Wisdom -- Limiting the Scope: Luke-Acts -- Temptation -- Transfiguration -- Healing -- III: Bodies Scandalized by Being-With God in the Flesh -- 7 Cyborg Bodies -- Cyborg Hybridity-Incorporating Technology -- Cyborg Hybridity-Tricky Nature -- Desirous Cyborgs -- 8 Deep, Promiscuous Incarnation -- Deep Incarnation -- Promiscuous Incarnation -- Getting Deep and Promiscuous -- The Erotic Reduction -- The Christ's Erotic Flesh -- Giving Precedence to Incarnation -- 9 A Touch of Sacrament -- The Anatheist Wager -- God in/with/under Everyday Holiness -- Sacrament in Praxis -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author. |
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| ISBN: | 1498522696 |