| Description |
1 online resource (x, 468 pages) |
| Series |
Transdisciplinary theological colloquia |
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Transdisciplinary theological colloquia.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Chris Boesel and Catherine Keller -- Negative theology : unfolding traditions -- The cloud of the impossible : embodiment and apophasis / Catherine Keller -- Subtle embodiments : imagining the holy in late antiquity / Patricia Cox Miller -- "Being neither oneself nor someone else" : the apophatic anthropology of Dionysius the Areopagite / Charles M. Stang -- Incarnations : body/image -- Bodies without wholes : apophatic excess and fragmentation in Augustine's City of God / Virginia Burrus and Karmen MacKendrick -- Bodies still unrisen, events still unsaid : a hermeneutic of bodies without flesh / John D. Caputo -- In the image of the invisible / Kathryn Tanner -- More mysterious bodies : veils, voids, visions -- "The body is no body" / David L. Miller -- Revisioning the body apophatically : incarnation and the acosmic naturalism of Habad Hasidism / Elliot R. Wolfson -- Bodies of the void : polyphilia and theoplicity / Roland Faber -- Apophatic ethics : whose body, whose speech? -- The metaphysics of the body / Graham Ward -- Emptying apophasis of deception : considering a duplicitous Kierkegaardian declaration / T. Wilson Dickinson -- Feminist theology and the sensible unsaying of mysticism / Sigridur Gudmarsdottir -- The infinite found in human form : intertwinings of cosmology and incarnation / Philip Clayton -- Love stories : unspeakable relations, infinite freedom -- The apophasis of divine freedom : saving "the name" and the neighbor from human mastery / Chris Boesel -- Let it be : finding grace with God through the Gelassenheit of the Annunciation / Rose Ellen Dunn -- Intimate mysteries : the apophatics of sensible love / Krista E. Hughes |
| Summary |
This work pursues the unlikely conjunction of apophasis and the body, not for the cachet of the 'cutting edge' but rather out of an ethical passion for the integrity of all creaturely bodies as they are caught up in various ideological mechanisms that threaten their dignity and material well-being |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Negative theology -- Christianity.
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Human body -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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RELIGION -- Theology.
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Human body -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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Negative theology -- Christianity
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Apophatische Theologie
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Leiblichkeit
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Negative Theologie
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Theologische Anthropologie
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Boesel, Chris, editor
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Keller, Catherine, 1953- editor.
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| LC no. |
2009025833 |
| ISBN |
9780823235087 |
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0823235084 |
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9780823247431 |
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0823247430 |
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