At the heart of the Christian proclamation is the problematic body of Jesus: problematic because His crucified form conveyed shame rather than glory, problematic because Christian communities argued about whether Jesus' body shared in the corruptible and tactile qualities of other human bodies. Jennifer Glancyargues that ordinary Christians, like others in the Roman Empire, saw all human bodies as expressing such things as social status and gender, honor and abjection. All human bodies were matrices of communication. Glancy draws on a variety of theoretical approaches to explore what early Christians understood bodies to communicate. INDICE: Abbreviations; 1.: What She Knew In Her Body: An Introduction 8; 2.: Boasting of Beatings (2 Corinthians 11:23-25) 47; 3.: Embodying Slavery from Paul to Augustine 101; 4.:. Mary in Childbirth 163; Epilogue 274; Bibliography 281; Index of Ancient Sources; General Index
- ISBN: 978-0-19-532815-8
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 206
- Fecha Publicación: 29/04/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés