Flesh made word : medieval women mystics, writing, and the incarnation / Emily A. Holmes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holmes, Emily A., 1974-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Incarnation--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Incarnation.

Mysticism--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Mysticism.

Angela, of Foligno, Saint, 1248?-1309--Authorship.

Angela.

Hadewijch, active 13th century--Authorship.

Hadewijch.

Porete, Marguerite, approximately 1250-1310--Authorship.

Porete, Marguerite.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 p.)

Place of Publication:

Waco : Baylor University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For most of Christian history, the incarnation designated Christ as God made man. The obvious connection between God and the male body too often excluded women and the female body. In Flesh Made Word, Emily A. Holmes displays how medieval women writers expanded traditional theology through the incarnational practice of writing. Holmes draws inspiration for feminist theology from the writings of these medieval women mystics as well as French feminist philosophers of écriture féminine. The female body is then prioritized in feminist Christology, rather than circumvented. Flesh Made Word is a fresh, inclusive theology of the incarnation.

Contents:

Problem of incarnation

Attending to word and flesh: an inclusive incarnation

Hadewijch of Brabant and the mother of love

Angela of Foligno writing the body of Christ

Writing annihilation with Marguerite Porete

Transcendence incarnate: apophatic bodies and the apophatic Christ.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 29, 2013).

ISBN:

9781481301091

1481301098

9781602587557

1602587558

OCLC:

862780175