Blood theology : seeing red in body- and God-talk / Eugene F. Rogers, Jr., University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rogers, Eugene F., Jr., author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blood--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Blood.

Physical Description:

xii, 242 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

"The unsettling language of blood has been invoked throughout the history of Christianity. But until now there has been no truly sustained treatment of how Christians use blood to think with. Eugene F. Rogers Jr. discusses in his much-anticipated new book the sheer, surprising strangeness of Christian blood-talk, exploring the many and varied ways in which it offers a language where Christians cooperate, sacrifice, grow and disagree. He asks too how it is that blood-talk dominates when other explanations would do, and how blood seeps into places where it seems hardly to belong. Reaching beyond academic disputes, to consider how religious debates fuel civil ones, he shows that it is not only theologians or clergy who engage in blood-talk, but also lawmakers, judges, generals, doctors and voters at large. Religious arguments have significant societal consequences, Rogers contends; and for that reason secular citizens must do their best to understand them." -- Dust jacket.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I WHY WE SEE RED

1. How Blood Marks the Bounds of the Christian Body: Overtures and Refrains

pt. II BLOOD SEEPS IN WHERE IT HARDLY SEEMS TO BELONG: BLOOD UNNECESSARY AND INEXHAUSTIBLE

2. Blood after Isaac: And God Said "Na"

3. Blood after Leviticus: Separation and Sacrifice

4. Blood after the Last Supper: Jesus and the Gender of Blood

pt. III BLOOD MAKES A LANGUAGE IN WHICH TO CONDUCT DISPUTES: FAMILY, TRUTH, AND TRIBE

5. Bridegrooms of Blood: Same-Sex Desire and the Blood of Christ

6. Red in Tooth and Claw: Creationism, Evolution, and the Blood of Christ

7. Blood Purity and Human Sacrifice: Castilians Meet Aztecs in War

pt. IV THE BLOOD OF GOD AT THE HEART OF THINGS: CAUSALITY SACRAMENTAL AND COSMIC

8. How the Eucharist "Causes" Salvation: The Physiology of the Eucharist, or Virtue and Blood Chemistry

9. The Blood of Christ and the Christology of Things: Why Things Became Human.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Rogers, Eugene F., Blood theology

ISBN:

9781108843287

110884328X

9781108824187

1108824188

OCLC:

1196821961

Publisher Number:

40030625178