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Poetics of the flesh / Mayra Rivera.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rivera, Mayra, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Flesh (Theology).
- Human body--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Human body.
- Human body (Philosophy).
- Christian philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (217 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Mayra Rivera outlines the relationship between the ways ancient Christian thinkers and Western philosophers conceive of the ""body"" and ""flesh."" Rivera's analysis furthers developments in new materialism and helps us to better understand the influence of Christian texts on contemporary theorizations of social structure, gender, race, and faith.
- Contents:
- Introduction : both flesh and not
- Becoming flesh : the Gospel of John
- Abandoning flesh : the Letters of Paul
- Embracing flesh : Tertullian
- Incarnate philosophy
- The ends of flesh
- Inescapable bodies
- Materializing relations.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822374930
- 0822374935
- OCLC:
- 919167626
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