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Title This is my body : philosophical reflections on embodiment in a Wesleyan spirit / edited by John Thomas Brittingham and Christina M. Smerick ; foreword by Jeffrey Bloechl
Published Eugene, Oregon : Pickwick Publications, an imprint of Wipf & Stock Publishers, ©2016
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Contents Was there room in Wesley's anthropology for anybody, particularly that of the lowly Jesus? / Michael Lodahl -- The body obsessed : reflections on religious enthusiasm / Eric Severson -- Reason's apprehension : how knowing is and is not like getting a grip / Jonathan Heaps -- Paranoid perfection : the body without organs for the Christian / Matthew Bernico -- Divine-human relationships : a case for an embodied God / Joyve Ann Konigsburg -- On becoming what we are : a Hegelian interpretation of eucharistic embodiment / John M, Bechtold -- Fracturing : the eucharist, body modification, and the aesthetics of brokenness / Brannon Hancock -- A phenomenology of anorexia nervosa : what anoretics can teach us about the body and the church / Amanda DiMiele -- Listening to the silence surrounding nonconventional bodies / Teri Merrick -- A mutilated body at (intercessory) prayer / Craig Keen
Summary The body of Christ. The body of the anorexic. The altered body. The mutilated body. The Eucharist. Canonical Western thought has had an uneasy relationship with the flesh from Plato forward. Western philosophy has spent its time dwelling upon ideation, perception, cognition, and recollection, and has pursued, de facto if not de jure, a duality of mind and body that continues to this day. Western theology has followed suit, either viewing the body as humiliation, prison, or site of sin. However, movements in the twentieth century--philosophical, theological, and scientific--have all issued chal
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Wesley, John, 1703-1791.
SUBJECT Wesley, John, 1703-1791 fast
Subject Human body -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Methodist Church -- Doctrines
Human body -- Religious aspects -- Methodist Church.
RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Anthropology.
Human body -- Religious aspects -- Methodist Church
Human body -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Methodist Church -- Doctrines
Form Electronic book
Author Brittingham, John Thomas, editor
Smerick, Christina M., editor
Bloechl, Jeffrey, 1966-
ISBN 9781498207935
1498207936