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1 online resource |
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.
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SUBJECT |
Wesley, John, 1703-1791 fast |
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Human body -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Methodist Church -- Doctrines
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Human body -- Religious aspects -- Methodist Church.
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RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Anthropology.
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Human body -- Religious aspects -- Methodist Church
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Human body -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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Methodist Church -- Doctrines
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Brittingham, John Thomas, editor
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Smerick, Christina M., editor
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Bloechl, Jeffrey, 1966-
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ISBN |
9781498207935 |
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1498207936 |
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