Marks of His Wounds: Gender Politics and Bodily Resurrection

by Beth Felker Jones

It is a central tenet of Christian theology that we will be resurrected in our bodies at the last day. But we have been conditioned, writes Beth Felker Jones, to think of salvation as being about anything but the body. We think that what God wants for us has to do with our thoughts, our hearts, or our interior relationships. In popular piety and academic theology alike, strong spiritualizing tendencies influence our perception of the body. Historically,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195309812
• ISBN13: 9780195309812
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.5"