Body-Signs of Future Times: Practising Relationality in the Midst of Mortality
This article explores how we might find and give hope in the midst of death. It does so by beginning with feminist theological affirmations of bodies. Numerous feminist theologians have exposed how Christianity has tended to align women with materiality and to denigrate both. This is understood to h...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2015]
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Practical theology
Year: 2015, Volume: 8, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 203-213 |
| IxTheo Classification: | FD Contextual theology NBE Anthropology NBQ Eschatology |
| Further subjects: | B
Feminism
B Death B Relationality B Bodies B Touch |
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| Summary: | This article explores how we might find and give hope in the midst of death. It does so by beginning with feminist theological affirmations of bodies. Numerous feminist theologians have exposed how Christianity has tended to align women with materiality and to denigrate both. This is understood to have led to a suspicion, if not demonization, of bodies generally and female bodies specifically. This article continues feminist theologians' contributions by highlighting and challenging such attitudes, and by affirming bodies. Bodies are understood to be integral to existence, and therefore to be of ultimate worth. Accordingly, this article uses eschatology to assign immediate and eternal value and meaning to bodies. An embodied eschatology, it is claimed, enables us to grasp at a substantial hope for bodies of such a nature that we are helped to relate to one another in more intimate and authentic ways particularly in experiences of death. |
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| ISSN: | 1756-0748 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Practical theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1756073X.2015.1125646 |