A Theology of Particularity : Unruly Bodies and the Stories They Carry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Godin, Mark A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human body--Religious aspects.

Human body.

Christian ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2026.

Summary:

This book defines a Christian theology of the body, taking into account the unruliness of the flesh and the stories our bodies carry.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Discerning the body?

Part I: The weight of theological tradition

Chapter 1: Keeping the word flesh: Graham Ward and particularity of body

Chapter 2: Keeping the story open: Stanley Hauerwas and the plurality of stories

Chapter 3: The indecent body: Marcella Althaus-Reid, the flesh and the theological mind

Chapter 4: The story-making body: Paul Ricoeur, embodiment and re-imagining the world

Chapter 5: A note about feminist epistemologies

Part II: Literary portrayals of embodied life

Chapter 6: The bodies that remain: Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost and 'This sweet touch from the world'

Chapter 7: Tracing bodies: Jane Urquhart's A Map of Glass and intimate geographies

Chapter 8: Learning what to do with the body: Form and meaning in Anne Michaels's Fugitive Pieces

Chapter 9: Catching bodies against the current: The disjunctions of embodiment and H. F. M. Prescott's The Man on a Donkey

Chapter 10: The narrated body: The art of identity and sanctification in Frederick Buechner's Godric

Conclusion: Bodies and power, and the hope of the strange

Bibliography

Index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Godin, Mark A. A Theology of Particularity

ISBN:

9798216269267

OCLC:

1602013673