RT Article
T1 Celestial Sex: Paracelsus and the Teaching of the “Heavenly Flesh” of Christ
JF Church history and religious culture
VO 101
IS 2/3
SP 194
OP 213
A1 Schubert, Anselm 1969-
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2021
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1764261089
AB Abstract This paper explores the origins of the Anabaptist doctrine of the “celestial flesh,” which conceived Christ as generated purely out of the substance of the Godhead and thus possessing an entirely “celestial body.” It argues that the origins of this doctrine lie in late medieval alchemical tracts adapted in Paracelsus’s Liber de Sancta Trinitate of 1524, according to which God has a body of heavenly flesh out of which he brings forth a heavenly woman. Through their sexually conceived union the eternal son is begotten and born with a celestial body.
K1 celestial flesh
K1 Christology
K1 history of the body
K1 Gender History
K1 Radical Reformation
K1 Paracelsus
DO 10.1163/18712428-bja10019