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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457033103321

Titolo

Apophatic bodies : negative theology, incarnation, and relationality / / edited by Chris Boesel and Catherine Keller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York  : , : Fordham University Press, , [2010]

©2010

ISBN

9780823235087

9780823247431

0823235084

0823247430

082323083X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (468 pages)

Collana

Transdisciplinary theological colloquia Apophatic bodies

Disciplina

233.5

Soggetti

Negative theology - Christianity

Human body - Religious aspects - Christianity

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Negative Theology: Unfolding Traditions -- The Cloud of the Impossible: Embodiment and Apophasis -- Subtle Embodiments: Imagining the Holy in Late Antiquity -- Being Neither Oneself Nor Someone Else: The Apophatic Anthropology of Dionysius the Areopagite -- Incarnations: Body/Image -- Bodies without Wholes: Apophatic Excess and Fragmentation in Augustine's City of God -- Bodies Still Unrisen, Events Still Unsaid: A Hermeneutic of Bodies without Flesh -- In the Image of the Invisible -- More Mysterious Bodies: Veils, Voids, Visions

a The Body Is No Body -- Revisioning the Body Apophatically: Incarnation and the Acosmic Naturalism of Habad Hasidism -- Bodies of the Void: Polyphilia and Theoplicity -- Apophatic Ethics: Whose Body, Whose Speech? -- The Metaphysics of the Body -- Emptying Apophasis of Deception: Considering a Duplicitous Kierkegaardian Declaration -- Feminist Theology and the Sensible Unsaying of Mysticism -- The Infinite Found in Human Form: Intertwinings of



Cosmology and Incarnation -- Love Stories: Unspeakable Relations, Infinite Freedom

The Apophasis of Divine Freedom: Saving the Name and the Neighbor from Human MasteryLet It Be: Finding Grace with God through the Gelassenheit of the Annunciation -- Intimate Mysteries: The Apophatics of Sensible Love -- Notes -- List of Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

This work pursues the unlikely conjunction of apophasis and the body, not for the cachet of the 'cutting edge' but rather out of an ethical passion for the integrity of all creaturely bodies as they are caught up in various ideological mechanisms that threaten their dignity and material well-being.