Apophatic Bodies : Negative Theology, Incarnation, and Relationality / Chris Boesel.
Boesel, Chris, author.; Boesel, Chris, contributor.; Burrus, Virginia, contributor.; Caputo, John D., contributor.; Clayton, Philip, contributor.; Dickinson, T. Wilson, contributor.; Dunn, Rose Ellen, contributor.; Faber, Roland, contributor.; Gudmarsdottir, Sigridur, contributor.; Hughes, Krista E., contributor.; Keller, Catherine, contributor.; Mackendrick, Karmen, contributor.; Miller, David L., contributor.; Miller, Patricia Cox, contributor.; Stang, Charles M., contributor.; Tanner, Kathryn, contributor.; Ward, Graham, contributor.; Wolfson, Elliot R., contributor.
2022
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Title Apophatic Bodies : Negative Theology, Incarnation, and Relationality / Chris Boesel.
Author Boesel, Chris, author.
ISBN 9780823290895
DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823290895
Published New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]
Copyright ©2010
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (448 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1515/9780823290895 doi
Summary The ancient doctrine of negative theology or apophasis-the attempt to describe God by speaking only of what cannot be said about the divine perfection and goodness-has taken on new life in the concern with language and its limits that preoccupies much postmodern philosophy, theology, and related disciplines. How does this mystical tradition intersect with the concern with material bodies that is simultaneously a focus in these areas? This volume 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-religious, theological, political, economic-that threaten their dignity and material well-being. The contributors, a diverse collection of scholars in theology, philosophy, history, and biblical studies, rethink the relationship between the concrete tradition of negative theology and apophatic discourses widely construed. They further endeavor to link these to the theological theme of incarnation and more general issues of embodiment, sexuality, and cosmology. Along the way, they engage and deploy the resources of contextual and liberation theology, post-structuralism, postcolonialism, process thought, and feminism. The result not only recasts the nature and possibilities of theological discourse but explores the possibilities of academic discussion across and beyond disciplines in concrete engagement with the well-being of bodies, both organic and inorganic. The volume interrogates the complex capacities of religious discourse both to threaten and positively to draw upon the material well-being of creation.
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Added Author Boesel, Chris, contributor.
Burrus, Virginia, contributor.
Caputo, John D., contributor.
Clayton, Philip, contributor.
Dickinson, T. Wilson, contributor.
Dunn, Rose Ellen, contributor.
Faber, Roland, contributor.
Gudmarsdottir, Sigridur, contributor.
Hughes, Krista E., contributor.
Keller, Catherine, contributor.
Mackendrick, Karmen, contributor.
Miller, David L., contributor.
Miller, Patricia Cox, contributor.
Stang, Charles M., contributor.
Tanner, Kathryn, contributor.
Ward, Graham, contributor.
Wolfson, Elliot R., contributor.
Series Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquia
In Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
Fordham University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
Available in Other Form print 9780823230822
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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
''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 Mastery
Let It Be: Finding Grace with God through the Gelassenheit of the Annunciation
Intimate Mysteries: The Apophatics of Sensible Love
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