Envisioning the Cosmic Body of Christ (eBook, PDF)

Embodiment, Plurality and Incarnation
Redaktion: Jax, Aurica; Wendel, Saskia

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a critical evaluation of the prospects and boundaries of an updated metaphor of the Body of Christ, especially in its cosmic dimension. The body motif in particular contains starting points for current body discourses of gender-sensitive and ecological theologies, especially in their mutual overlaps.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000681673
• Artikelnr.: 57532820

Autorenporträt

Aurica Jax, Doctor of Divinity, is director of the "Arbeitsstelle Frauenseelsorge", German Bishops' Conference. From 2013 to 2019, she was Research Assistant to the Chair for Systematic Theology, Institute for Catholic Theology, University of Cologne, Germany Saskia Wendel is Professor for Systematic Theology, Institute of Catholic Theology, University of Cologne, and vice-director of the a.r.t.e.s.-Graduate School of the Humanities, Cologne, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Aurica Jax and Saskia Wendel; Part I Re-Constructions; "And
Wisdom Became Matter": Materialist Explorations of the Cosmic Body of
Christ Aurica Jax; The Son as the Paradigm and Soul of the World: The
Cosmic Christ in Origen Christian Hengstermann; Christ and the Cosmos in
Nicholas of Cusa's Universe Inigo Bocken; Teilhard de Chardin, Apostle of
the Cosmic Christ Ursula King; Following Raimon Panikkar towards an
Understanding of Creation as Incarnatio Continua Bernhard Nitsche; The
"World as the Body of God" (Sallie McFague): The Cosmic Christ as the
Measure of the Body of God Margit Eckholt; Part II Investigations;
Embodied Conscious Life: The Idea of an Incarnated God and the Precarious
Metaphor of the Cosmic Body of Christ Saskia Wendel; Deep Incarnation
Between Balthasar and Bulgakov: The Form of Beauty and the Wisdom of God
Celia Deane-Drummond; Incarnational Presence: Sacramentality of Everyday
Life and The Body. Or: Unsystematic Sceptical Musings on the Use of a
Central Metaphor Maaike de Haardt; Divine Promiscuity Laurel Schneider;
"These are my bodies...": Cosmic Christology between Monotheism and
Polytheism Matthew Eaton; Members of Each Other: Intercarnation, Gender and
Political Theology Catherine Keller; List of Contributors