Broken and Whole: Essays on Religion and the Body - 1993 Annual Volume of the College Theology Society

Contents: Part I: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON RELIGION AND THE BODY; Desire and Delight: A New Reading of Augustine's Confessions, Margaret Miles; Incontinent Observations, Morney Joy; The Antichene Tradition Regarding the Role of the Body within the "Image of God", Frederick G. McLeod; Body as Moral Metaphor in Dante's Commedia, James Gaffney; Sex, Celibacy, and the Modern Self in Nineteenth-Century Germany, William Madges; Part II: CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES ON CHRISTIANITY AND THE BODY; Christianity, Inc., Jill Raitt; Inkblots and Authenticity, William Loewe; Em-bodied Spirit/In-spired Matter: Against ech-Gnosticism, Gary Mann; The World as God's Body: Theological Ethics and Panentheism, William C. French; A Short Consideration of Sallie McFague's The Body of God, John P. McCarthy; The Body of God: A Feminist Response, Susan A. Ross; Part III: SPIRITUALITY AND THE BODY; Chronic Pain and Creative Possibility: A Psychological Phenomenon Confronts Theologies of Suffering, Pamela A. Smith; Rosemary Haughton on Spirituality and Sexuality, Joy Milos; Spirituality as an Academic Discipline: Reflections from Experience, Sandra Schneiders. Copublished with the College Theology Society.

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Edited by Maureen A. Tilley and Susan A. Ross

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This volume contains a series of essays concerning the relationship between religion and the physical body, covering historical and contemporary perspectives.

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• Authors: Susan A. Ross, Maureen A. Tilley
• Assisted by: Susan Ross (Editor), Susan A Ross (Editor), Susan A. Ross (Editor), Maureen Tilley (Editor), Maureen a Tilley (Editor), Maureen A. Tilley (Editor)
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780819197474
• ISBN: 978-0-8191-9747-4
• No. of pages: 340
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 228 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 318 g
• Series: Credibility of Institutions, P; College Theology Society Annuals; Publications of the College Theology Society; Credibility of Institutions, P; Publications of the College Th
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous