Download or read book Divine Bodies written by Candida R. Moss and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A path-breaking scholar's insightful reexamination of the resurrection of the body and the construction of the self When people talk about the resurrection they often assume that the bodies in the afterlife will be perfect. But which version of our bodies gets resurrected--young or old, healthy or sick, real-to-life or idealized? What bodily qualities must be recast in heaven for a body to qualify as both ours and heavenly? The resurrection is one of the foundational statements of Christian theology, but when it comes to the New Testament only a handful of passages helps us answer the question "What will those bodies be like?" More problematically, the selection and interpretation of these texts are grounded in assumptions about the kinds of earthly bodies that are most desirable. Drawing upon previously unexplored evidence in ancient medicine, philosophy, and culture, this illuminating book both revisits central texts--such as the resurrection of Jesus--and mines virtually ignored passages in the Gospels to show how the resurrection of the body addresses larger questions about identity and the self.
Download or read book Bhakti and Embodiment written by Barbara A. Holdrege and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-14 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historical shift from Vedic traditions to post-Vedic bhakti (devotional) traditions is accompanied by a shift from abstract, translocal notions of divinity to particularized, localized notions of divinity and a corresponding shift from aniconic to iconic traditions and from temporary sacrificial arenas to established temple sites. In Bhakti and Embodiment Barbara Holdrege argues that the various transformations that characterize this historical shift are a direct consequence of newly emerging discourses of the body in bhakti traditions in which constructions of divine embodiment proliferate, celebrating the notion that a deity, while remaining translocal, can appear in manifold corporeal forms in different times and different localities on different planes of existence. Holdrege suggests that an exploration of the connections between bhakti and embodiment is critical not only to illuminating the distinctive transformations that characterize the emergence of bhakti traditions but also to understanding the myriad forms that bhakti has historically assumed up to the present time. This study is concerned more specifically with the multileveled models of embodiment and systems of bodily practices through which divine bodies and devotional bodies are fashioned in Krsna bhakti traditions and focuses in particular on two case studies: the Bhagavata Purana, the consummate textual monument to Vaisnava bhakti, which expresses a distinctive form of passionate and ecstatic bhakti that is distinguished by its embodied nature; and the Gaudiya Vaisnava tradition, an important bhakti tradition inspired by the Bengali leader Caitanya in the sixteenth century, which articulates a robust discourse of embodiment pertaining to the divine bodies of Krsna and the devotional bodies of Krsna bhaktas that is grounded in the canonical authority of the Bhagavata Purana.
Download or read book God s Body written by Christoph Markschies and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God is unbounded. God became flesh. While these two assertions are equally viable parts of Western Christian religious heritage, they stand in tension with one another. Fearful of reducing God's majesty with shallow anthropomorphisms, philosophy and religion affirm that God, as an eternal being, stands wholly apart from creation. Yet the legacy of the incarnation complicates this view of the incorporeal divine, affirming a very different image of God in physical embodiment. While for many today the idea of an embodied God seems simplistic--even pedestrian--Christoph Markschies reveals that in antiquity, the educated and uneducated alike subscribed to this very idea. More surprisingly, the idea that God had a body was held by both polytheists and monotheists. Platonic misgivings about divine corporeality entered the church early on, but it was only with the advent of medieval scholasticism that the idea that God has a body became scandalous, an idea still lingering today. In God's Body Markschies traces the shape of the divine form in late antiquity. This exploration follows the development of ideas of God's corporeality in Jewish and Greco-Roman traditions. In antiquity, gods were often like humans, which proved to be important for philosophical reflection and for worship. Markschies considers how a cultic environment nurtured, and transformed, Jewish and Christian descriptions of the divine, as well as how philosophical debates over the connection of body and soul in humanity provided a conceptual framework for imagining God. Markschies probes the connections between this lively culture of religious practice and philosophical speculation and the christological formulations of the church to discover how the dichotomy of an incarnate God and a fleshless God came to be. By studying the religious and cultural past, Markschies reveals a Jewish and Christian heritage alien to modern sensibilities, as well as a God who is less alien to the human experience than much of Western thought has imagined. Since the almighty God who made all creation has also lived in that creation, the biblical idea of humankind as image of God should be taken seriously and not restricted to the conceptual world but rather applied to the whole person.
Download or read book Our Bodies Tell God s Story written by Christopher West and published by Brazos Press. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to a world awash in sexual chaos and gender confusion, this book offers a bold and thoroughly biblical look at the meaning of the body, sex, gender, and marriage. Bestselling author, cultural commentator, and popular theologian Christopher West is one of the world's most recognized teachers of John Paul II's Theology of the Body. He specializes in making this teaching accessible to all Christians, with particular attention to evangelicals. As West explains, from beginning to end the Bible tells a story of marriage. It begins with the marriage of man and woman in an earthly paradise and ends with the marriage of Christ and the church in an eternal paradise. In our post-sexual-revolution world, we need to remember that our bodies tell a divine story and proclaim the gospel itself. As male and female and in the call to become "one flesh," our bodies reveal a "great mystery" that mirrors Christ's love for the church (Eph. 5:31-32). This book provides a redemptive rather than repressive approach to sexual purity, explores the true meaning of sex and marriage, and offers a compelling vision of what it means to be created male and female. Foreword by Eric Metaxas.
Download or read book The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel written by Benjamin D. Sommer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-29 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sommer utilizes a lost ancient Near Eastern perception of divinity according to which a god has more than one body and fluid, unbounded selves. Though the dominant strains of biblical religion rejected it, a monotheistic version of this theological intuition is found in some biblical texts. Later Jewish and Christian thinkers inherited this ancient way of thinking; ideas such as the sefirot in Kabbalah and the trinity in Christianity represent a late version of this theology. This book forces us to rethink the distinction between monotheism and polytheism, as this notion of divine fluidity is found in both polytheistic cultures (Babylonia, Assyria, Canaan) and monotheistic ones (biblical religion, Jewish mysticism, Christianity), whereas it is absent in some polytheistic cultures (classical Greece). The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel has important repercussions not only for biblical scholarship and comparative religion but for Jewish-Christian dialogue.
Download or read book Divine Bodies written by Jessica Leigh Margrave Schirm and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Refiguring the Body written by Barbara A. Holdrege and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2016-12-28 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Refiguring the Body provides a sustained interrogation of categories and models of the body grounded in the distinctive idioms of South Asian religions, particularly Hindu and Buddhist traditions. The contributors engage prevailing theories of the body in the Western academy that derive from philosophy, social theory, and feminist and gender studies. At the same time, they recognize the limitations of applying Western theoretical models as the default epistemological framework for understanding notions of embodiment that derive from non-Western cultures. Divided into three sections, this collection of essays explores material bodies, embodied selves, and perfected forms of embodiment; divine bodies and devotional bodies; and gendered logics defining male and female bodies. The contributors seek to establish theory parity in scholarly investigations and to re-figure body theories by taking seriously the contributions of South Asian discourses to theorizing the body.
Download or read book The Sacred Body Factories written by Betsy Adams (Shoh Nah Hah Lieh) and published by BalboaPress. This book was released on 2012-07-25 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sacred Body Factories and the Creations of these eons old Arisings here in our Universe and beyond, are home to our Created Sacred Vessel our Sacred Body. As Soul, each of us chooses to explore what it is like to be in a Sacred Vessel, exploring an Ego Field that has as its primary ingredient no longer Feeling The Love We Are. This present work of nonfiction explores the content and Creative Manifestations of The Sacred Body Factories as well as the consequences of being in a Sacred Vessel, with its accommodative Sacred Nodal Energies, while forgetting Who/What We Really Are. Each of us is a mutually agreed- to Co-Creation of the Soul/Body Matrix with the Cosmos, and hence to honor, accept, allow, and above all else, LOVE Unconditionally this Unique Creation is critical. How we Relate to the experiences we are having here in this Ego Field while feeling so cut off from the Love We Are is deeply explored in this work Things Happen We evolve We do and say and create many things based in not Loving the self. Everything that is Created within the Sacred Body Factories, we are Co-Creating with Our Creator and with the many billions of personnel who work within and for The Sacred Body Factories - of which there are countless numbers all over the Universes. In fact, we are ourselves among these Beings who work within the Sacred Matrices of Love that so Create. We have been Gifted with many levels of experience in which to explore in this Universe and Beyond. Enjoy Your Sacredness, Your Sacred Body. Tend it Lovingly, with Great Care, Great Compassion and Consciousness. For You Created It and You are Lovingly Responsible for It. God Bless Shoh Nah
Download or read book The Divine Body written by Sabije Dervishi Veseli and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life after death continues and is real.Prophet Moses received a message from God.The colors purple, red, dark red are the colors of the flowers in Paradise, and these three colors symbolize the sacred garments of the priests.Prophet Muhamed accepts divine messages when the body takes two forms. When the body took on a spiritual form and an organic body.
Download or read book Divine Bodies written by Qamar Adamjee and published by Asian Art Museum. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when the divine is given a body? Have gods created humans in their image, or is it the other way around? How do people express their values through the forms with which they present their bodies? Divine Bodies is a thought-provoking Asian art history book that explores intriguing questions like these raised by the sacred art traditions of Asia. Approximately 45 artworks from the Asian Art Museum's renowned collection show how artists have envisioned the divine, imbuing it with forms that are meant to reflect supernatural qualities. Additionally, 20 contemporary photographs suggest how some artists today deal with questions about the body and its manifold expressions. The book explores how ideal beauty is interpreted in different Asian cultures, how that beauty can be transformed by altering the forms of the body, how deities maintain their identity despite changes to their form, and how divine beings are represented after their death. By viewing these deity-images, readers—whether religious or not—can perceive the messages that artists wish to convey. But Divine Bodies invites readers to do more than just recognize and relate to the meanings inscribed on divine bodies: it also shows how divine imagery shapes and reflects the daily experiences of ordinary people. The novel topic of this book, its diverse and extraordinary artworks, and the unique perspectives of its authors make Divine Bodies a fine art book that will be talked about and thought about for years to come.
Download or read book Promised Bodies written by Patricia Dailey and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Christian tradition, especially in the works of Paul, Augustine, and the exegetes of the Middle Ages, the body is a twofold entity consisting of inner and outer persons that promises to find its true materiality in a time to come. A potentially transformative vehicle, it is a dynamic mirror that can reflect the work of the divine within and substantially alter its own materiality if receptive to divine grace. The writings of Hadewijch of Brabant, a thirteenth-century beguine, engage with this tradition in sophisticated ways both singular to her mysticism and indicative of the theological milieu of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Crossing linguistic and historical boundaries, Patricia Dailey connects the embodied poetics of Hadewijch's visions, writings, and letters to the work of Julian of Norwich, Hildegard of Bingen, Marguerite of Oingt, and other mystics and visionaries. She establishes new criteria to more consistently understand and assess the singularity of women's mystical texts and, by underscoring the similarities between men's and women's writings of the time, collapses traditional conceptions of gender as they relate to differences in style, language, interpretative practices, forms of literacy, and uses of textuality.
Download or read book Body Parts written by Michelle Voss Roberts and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christians have traditionally claimed that humans are created in the image of God (imago Dei), but they have consistently defined that image in ways that exclude people from full humanity. The most well-known definition locates the image in the rational soul, which is constructed in such a way that women, children, and many persons with disabilities are found deficient. Body Parts claims the importance of embodiment, difference, and limitation-not only as descriptions of the human condition but also as part of the imago Dei itself.
Download or read book Books as Bodies and as Sacred Beings written by James W. Watts and published by Comparative Research on Iconic and Performative Texts. This book was released on 2020 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume an international team of scholars address the theme of books as sacred beings from an impressively diverse range of primary material and perspectives. Yet, as a group, they meld to engage and advance previous research to solidify the conclusion that human cultures, especially religious groups, often ritualize bodies as sacred books and books as divine beings. The studies collected here not only increase the range of examples of this phenomenon. They also show the wide variety of ways in which the identity of books, bodies and beings gets both ritualized and theorized. The articles are bracketed by an introduction to the collection, and then by a concluding essay that extrapolates the theme of books as sacred beings on a more general level.
Download or read book The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel written by Benjamin D. Sommer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-29 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sommer utilizes a recovered ancient perception of divinity as having more than one body, fluid and unbounded selves.
Download or read book Divine Demonic and Disordered written by Hsiao-wen Cheng and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A variety of Chinese writings-medical texts, religious treatises, fiction, and anecdotes-from the Song period (960-1279) depict women who were considered peculiar because their sexual bodies did not belong to men. These were women who refused to marry, were considered unmarriageable, or were married but denied their husbands sexual access, thereby removing themselves from social constructs of female sexuality defined in relation to men. As elite male authors attempted to make sense of these incomprehensible women whose sexual bodies were unavailable to them, they were forced to contemplate the purpose of women's bodies and lives apart from wifehood and motherhood. This raised troubling new questions about normalcy, desire, sexuality, and identity. In Divine, Demonic, and Disordered Hsiao-wen Cheng considers accounts of "manless women," many of which depict women who suffered from "enchantment disorder" or who engaged in "intercourse with ghosts"-conditions with specific symptoms and behavioral patterns. Through her questioning of conventional binary gender analyses and heteronormative assumptions, she shifts attention away from women's reproductive bodies and familial roles and offers historians of China and readers interested in women, gender, sexuality, medicine, and religion a fresh look at the unstable meanings attached to women's behaviors and lives even in a time of codified patriarchy"--
Download or read book Living in a Body on a Planet written by William Linville and published by . This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, William shares in his own uniqued way the clarity, simplicity and guidance that will set you free to allow your life to become more expressive, enjoyable and inclusive and for you to exclusively run forth with what is in your life and what is coming forth into your life from all around you on a planet within the Universe and so much more. This book will assist you to access your natural birthrights and use the divine abilities that have been awaiting you. By allowing yourself to walk through these simple steps, you will be reclaiming your life, your health and your world. Relationships, finances and parenting etc. will all begin to grow and evolve. As you find yourself reconnecting with your source, optimum health and well-being, happiness and success and much, much more will be yours. It will forever change the way you look at your life and live your life and as Will so powerfully reveals in these pages, we all have these divine abilities and this work will assist you and guide you to living them and having a blast as you flourish on every level of your being. Chapters and topics in this book include: Introduction Will's Journey Where Did We Come From? Details on the karmic grid system, why it was so strong, what its purpose was and when it was dissolved. Clarity on the mind, the ego, emotion and judgement and why they have had so much power over you. Where Are We Going? Who or what is God? Clarity and guidance on the God/Creator this book refers to, your God/Creator given innate abilities, living beyond the mind level, ego, conflict etc., playing with your innate abilities and experiencing your uniquedness. What Is a True Relationship, and How Can You Have One? Living in a world with out pretense nor repetitive behaviors that do not complement your life. Questioning the mind is a starting point to create on opening to reveal the truth and using the mind as your friend. Rebuilding Your DNA and Raising Your Vibratory Structures Details on letting the body become your friend and letting the body be the body. How emotions and beliefs impact the body and its cells and its vibratory levels and cause rapid aging. How you can regenerate, rebuild and change the body. Playing with Higher States of Consciousness and Your Guidance Realms This book with guide you into your ability to play with higher states of consciousness, communicate directly with your source, what it is to be your presence and the Higher You where you are completely resolved of carrying any emotional baggage and are free from being hijacked by judgment and conflict with yourself and others. We will call your Higher Levels your 'internal/eternal guidance'. Communicating with Angelic and Archangelic Presences and Ascended Host Realms This chapter is about consciously enjoying the assistance and love from Angelic, Archangelic and Ascended Host Realms, we will call these Realms are you 'external guidance'. You can think of these Realms as protectors, advisors and even cheerleaders that encourage, assist and support you. Communicating with All of the Kingdoms You will see that when you are playing with all of your abilities and communicating with All of the Kingdoms, your mind and its evaluations and judgements are out of the way and you will have a greater understanding and knowledge of all things. Living in a Clear State This is your "I Am" presence of neutrality, openness, fluidity, freedom and expression. This is your natural state, one of an "is-ness" and simplicity and clarity within every level of your being. This is the 'real You' living in total bliss and being in the world and not embodying the world and its outside activities and dilemmas. Additionally, with-in each chapter there is a Willcasso and a meditation, or you may call it an exercise, to assist you in embodying all of your gifts and abilities through your mental and physical embodiment.
Download or read book The Theology of the Body written by Pope John Paul II and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Theology of the Body contains talks given by John Paul II in which he discusses the bodily dimension of human personhood, sexuality, and marriage in the light of biblical revelation.
