Envisioning the Cosmic Body of Christ

Introduction Aurica Jax and Saskia Wendel; Part I Re-Constructions; "And Wisdom Became Matter": Materialist Explorations of the Cosmic Body of Christ Aurica Jax; The Son as the Paradigm and Soul of the World: The Cosmic Christ in Origen Christian Hengstermann; Christ and the Cosmos in Nicholas of Cusa's Universe Inigo Bocken; Teilhard de Chardin, Apostle of the Cosmic Christ Ursula King; Following Raimon Panikkar towards an Understanding of Creation as Incarnatio Continua Bernhard Nitsche; The "World as the Body of God" (Sallie McFague): The Cosmic Christ as the Measure of the Body of God Margit Eckholt; Part II Investigations; Embodied Conscious Life: The Idea of an Incarnated God and the Precarious Metaphor of the Cosmic Body of Christ Saskia Wendel; Deep Incarnation Between Balthasar and Bulgakov: The Form of Beauty and the Wisdom of God Celia Deane-Drummond; Incarnational Presence: Sacramentality of Everyday Life and The Body. Or: Unsystematic Sceptical Musings on the Use of a Central Metaphor Maaike de Haardt; Divine Promiscuity Laurel Schneider; "These are my bodies...": Cosmic Christology between Monotheism and Polytheism Matthew Eaton; Members of Each Other: Intercarnation, Gender and Political Theology Catherine Keller; List of Contributors