[Rezension von: Moss, Candida R., 1978-, Divine bodies : resurrecting perfection in the New Testament and early Christianity]
For both ancient and modern peoples, beliefs about the afterlife reveal much about their anxieties and preoccupations about death. Even more significantly though, as Candida Moss shows in her new study on identity and the resurrected body, wrapped up in these anxieties and preoccupations ‘is the ver...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2021
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2021, Volume: 72, Issue: 2, Pages: 943-945 |
| Review of: | Divine bodies (New Haven : Yale University Press, 2019) (Heim, Erin M.)
Divine bodies (New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 2019) (Heim, Erin M.) Divine bodies (New Haven : Yale University Press, 2019) (Heim, Erin M.) |
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| Summary: | For both ancient and modern peoples, beliefs about the afterlife reveal much about their anxieties and preoccupations about death. Even more significantly though, as Candida Moss shows in her new study on identity and the resurrected body, wrapped up in these anxieties and preoccupations ‘is the very nature of identity and personhood’ (p. 3). Most contemporary studies on the resurrection have focused on its apologetic value, or perhaps its lack thereof, but Moss wisely probes another, and arguably more interesting, angle in her study: what can ancient Christian beliefs and debates about the identity, integrity, functionality, and aesthetics of the resurrected body (the self in its perfected and glorified form) tell us about their understanding of the nature of the self? |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flab144 |