The broken body : Israel, Christ and fragmentation / Sarah Coakley, Harvard University Department of Religion Cambridge, US.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coakley, Sarah, 1951- author.

Contributor:

Yarnall Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Challenges in contemporary theology

Challenges in Contemporary Theology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jesus Christ--Person and offices.

Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ--History of doctrines.

Physical Description:

xlii, 294 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2024.

Summary:

"'Who, or why, or which or what is the Akond of SWAT?', wrote Edward Lear in one of his more elusive nonsense poems. No less elusive, however, is the somewhat parallel question: Who, or why, or which, or what, is the 'risen Jesus'? The opening chapter of this book will attempt to probe this misleadingly simple theological question afresh. In particular, it will propose a systematic solution to the task of analysing how historical, dogmatic, and what we might call 'spiritual', or 'ascetic', approaches to the quest for Jesus's identity might relate, and mutually inform one another. At the same time I shall begin to ask where the appropriately 'apophatic' dimensions of the task of Christology might also lie. The task is a curiously complicated one, as we shall see. Not only is there still great difficulty, even after two hundred years of 'historical Jesus research', in bringing modern historical/critical discussions about the identity of 'Jesus' into clear relation to the older credal, dogmatic reflection on his 'person'; but still less is there a consistent confidence manifested in contemporary systematic theology, as I see it, about the means and possibiity of a direct relation to the 'risen Jesus' now, about what this claim might mean, and about how the probative recognition of him might occur. Indeed, we might say that this last, pressingly existential, question has been all-but occluded - embarrassedly repressed, even - in the era of obsession about the 'historical' identity of Jesus"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Prologue: The broken body

Part 1 : Seeking the identity of Christ : 1. On the Identity of the Risen Jesus : in quest of the {u2018}apophatic{u2019} Christ ; 2. Does kenos̄is rest on a mistake? Three kenotic models in patristic exegesis ; 3. {u2018}Mingling{u2019} in Gregory of Nyssa{u2019}s Christology : a reconsideration ; 4. What does Chalcedon solve and what does it not? Some reflections on the status and meaning of the Chalcedonian {u2018}definition{u2019}

Part 2 : Israel and Christ in contestation? : 5. {u2018}Broken{u2019} monotheism? Intra-Divine complexity and the origins of the doctrine of the trinity ; 6. On the {u2018}fearfulness{u2019} of forgiveness : Jewish and Christian perspectives ; 7. On clouds and veils : Divine presence and {u2018}feminine{u2019} secrets in Revelation and nature ; 8. In defence of sacrifice : gender, selfhood and the binding of Isaac

Part 3 : The Eucharist, desire and fragmentation : 9. In persona Christi : who, or where, is Christ at the altar? ; 10. Sacrifice re-visited : blood and gender ; 11. Gift re-told : spirals of grace ; 12. Real presence, real absence : the Eucharist and the {u2018}apophatic{u2019} Christ

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Coakley, Sarah. Broken body

ISBN:

9781405189231

1405189231

OCLC:

1424660991

Publisher Number:

90100932756