Julian of Norwich and the mystical body politic of Christ /
Julian of Norwich and the Mystical Body Politic of Christ provides a close and historically sensitive reading of Julian's Revelation of Love that addresses the question of the relationship between our understanding of God and our vision of human community. By examining Julian's images of C...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Notre Dame, Ind. :
University of Notre Dame Press,
©1999.
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Colección: | Studies in spirituality and theology ;
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction and Acknowledgments
- 1. Imagining the political
- A. Theological politics
- B. Political theology
- C. Between the times
- 1. The metaphysics of order
- 2. The metaphysics of freedom
- 2. "I desyred a bodely sight"
- A. The humanity of Christ
- B. Bodily seeing
- 1. Three requests
- 2. Seeing Jesus
- C. Event and interpretation
- D. The only Heaven
- 1. Neither affectivity nor contemplation
- 2. God's righteousness written in the flesh of Jesus
- 3. "A feyer and delectable place"
- A. Boundaries
- 1. Bodies smooth and grotesque
- 2. Dwelling on margins
- B. The grotesque body of Christ
- 1. Defecation and degradation
- 2. From flood to drought
- 3. A body of lack: Christ our Mother
- 4. Privation and plenty
- C. Closed in the goodness of God
- 1. Dwelling in the body
- 2. The scope of the body
- D. The deformation of a persecuting society
- 4. "A contynuant laborer and an hard traveler"
- A.A shewyng full mystely
- 1. Sensus litteralis
- 2. Sensus mysticus
- B. Treasure in the earth
- 1. Reuniting substance and sensuality
- 2. Exemplarism and election
- C.A drama without footlights
- 1. Theo-drama
- 2. Lords and servants
- Conclusion: Performing the book
- Appendix: Who was julian of norwich?