Mayra Rivera

Poetics of the Flesh

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Mayra Rivera is Associate Professor of Theology and Latina/o Studies at Harvard University and the author of The Touch of Transcendence: A Postcolonial Theology of God.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780822359876
• ISBN-10: 0822359871
• Artikelnr.: 42129114

Autorenporträt

Mayra Rivera is Associate Professor of Theology and Latina/o Studies at Harvard University and the author of The Touch of Transcendence: A Postcolonial Theology of God.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction. Both Flesh and Not  1
Part I: Regarding Christian Bodies  15
1. Becoming Flesh: The Gospel of John  19
2. Abandoning Flesh: The Letters of Paul  29
3. Embracing Flesh: Tertullian  43
Part II: The Philosophers' (Christian) Flesh  55
4. Incarnate Philosophy  59
5. The Ends of Flesh  87
Part III: A Labyrinth of Incarnations  111
6. Inescapable Bodies  117
7. Carnal Relations  133
Conclusion  153
Notes  159
Bibliography  193
Index  203