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Description
This book defines a Christian theology of the body, taking into account the unruliness of the flesh and the stories our bodies carry
Within the Bible and religious practices, our bodies are often viewed as one-dimensional, purely symbolic objects. Mark Godin resists this turn, arguing that bodies carry stories and stories interpret bodies. Part One consists of a critical examination of Christian theological traditions concerning bodies and stories as displayed in the work of four modern Christian thinkers. In Part Two, Godin turns to storytelling itself, and comprises studies of the portrayals of bodies in five novels. Ultimately, Godin uses fictional and real depictions of the body to define a Christian theology which attends to the concrete materiality of actual persons in the world.
Table of Contents
Part One: The Weight of Theological Tradition
1 - Keeping the Word Flesh: Graham Ward and Particularity of Body
2- Keeping the Story Open: Stanley Hauerwas and the Plurality of Stories
3 - The Indecent Body: Marcella Althaus-Reid, the Flesh and the Theological Mind
4 - The Story-Making Body: Paul Ricoeur, Embodiment and Re-imagining the World
Conclusion to Part One: A Note about Feminist Epistemologies
Part Two: Literary Portrayals of Embodied Life
5 - The Bodies that Remain: Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost and 'This sweet touch from the world'
6 - Tracing Bodies: Jane Urquhart's A Map of Glass and Intimate Geographies
7 - Learning What to Do with the Body: Form and Meaning in Anne Michaels's Fugitive Pieces
8 - Catching Bodies Against the Current: The Disjunctions of Embodiment and H. F. M. Prescott's The Man on a Donkey
9 - The Narrated Body: The Art of Identity and Sanctification in Frederick Buechner's Godric
Postlude to Part Two
Conclusion: Bodies and Power, and the Hope of the Strange
Product details
| Published | 20 Aug 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 256 |
| ISBN | 9781978713710 |
| Imprint | T&T Clark |
| Dimensions | 229 x 152 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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