Marks of His Wounds: Gender Politics and Bodily Resurrection
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| Rating | : | 4.86 (639 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0195309812 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 168 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Beth Felker Jones is Assistant Professor of Bible and Religion, Huntington University
"Jones, writing with clarity and passion, grounds her theology of the body in the doctrine of the physical resurrection. She brings forth something truly new precisely because it takes so seriously what was ancient. It is an illuminating work." --D. This is a compelling book that has reshaped my theology of the body and the physical resurrection." --Rebekah Miles, author of The Bonds of Freedom: Feminist Theology andChristian Realism"Jones retrieves by way of a creative reconsideration of bodily resurrection the body's, indeed the gendered body's, centrality for human life be
It is a central tenet of Christian theology that we will be resurrected in our bodies at the last day. Using gender as an illustration, she interrogates the difference resurrection doctrine makes for holiness. But we have been conditioned, writes Beth Felker Jones, to think of salvation as being about anything but the body. This notion is deeply problematic for feminist ethics, which centers on embodiment. Historically, some theologians have denigrated the body as an obstacle to sanctification. Because death has been overcome in Christ's resurrected body, human embodiment can bear witness to the Triune God. Jones's purpose is to devise a theology of the body that is compatible with feminist politics. The bodily resurrection makes sense of our bodies, of what they are and what they are for.. We think that what God wants for us has to do with our thoughts, our hearts, or our interior relationships. Human creatures must be understood as psychosomatic unities, she says, on analogy with the union
AMAZING BOOK BF Jones is an amazing author. This book was and still is instrument in shaping my theology of the body and why it is important to my Faith.. Thoughtful and Thought-Provoking Beth Felker Jones' treatise on the theology of the body is both thoughtful and thought-provoking. I would be interested in taking a university course that used this book as one of its key texts.