Body Symbolism in the Bible

Name: Body Symbolism in the Bible
Brand: Liturgical Press
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Silvia Schroer Thomas Staubli(Autor*in)

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Erschienen am 5. Mai 2017

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Intro
Title page
Copyright
Contents
Foreword
Abbreviations
Introduction
I. Aspects of Theological Anthropology: From the Human Being to the Male and Female Body
1. "And God made humankind in the divine image." Human beings as images of God
2. "The human being has no advantage over the beast." The vulnerable creature
3. "Ecce homo." Philosophical and theological answers to the human question 6
Jewish Teaching About Adam
Christian Dialectic Between Adam and Christ
Gnostic Speculations about Adam
The Human in Islam: Between God and the Devil
Triumph Over the Body in Western Philosophy
The Star of Redemption in the Face of God
The Truth in the Otherness of Others
The Sacramentality of the Body
Physical Community as Committed Church
Women's Lives as the Measure of Liberation
4. "What is the human being .?" In search of a body-oriented biblical anthropology
Hans Walter Wolff's Old Testament Anthropology
James Barr's Objections to a Biblical Anthropology
Feminist Perspectives in Biblical Anthropology
II. Aspects of Biblical Body Spirituality: From Sinful Flesh to the Temple of God
1. "This . is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh." Aspective apprehension and description of the body
2. "Your eyes are like doves." Beauty as expressive rather than perfected form
3. "My body dwells securely." Physical prayers of physical people
4. "This is my body." The celebration of the body in the celebration of the bread
5. "And the Word was made flesh." God becomes a real body
6. "Speak but a word." Healing of body and spirit
7. "Faith, love, hope." Jesus' praxis of eyes, hands, and feet
8. "She has performed a good service for me." Bodily wellness and the erotic
9. "Glorify God in your body." The body as temple of the Holy Spirit
1. An Understanding Heart
Symbol of the Inner Person
Heart and Heartlessness: Intelligence and Stupidity
The Place of Spiritual Treasures and Secrets
Human Conscience
Heart and Hurt: A Contrast with the Western Tradition of the Heart
2. From Throat to Soul
The Breathing Throat: Crux of Life and Symbol of the Person
The Desirous Throat: Driving Power and Spark of the Soul
The Soul Amputated from the Body
Rejoining What Has Been Severed
3. God in the Belly
The Entrails: Seismographs of Feeling
The Womb: Compassionate Giver of Life
God's Wombliness
Despising the Menstruating Woman
4. "The Very Hairs of Your Head Are Numbered"
The Head: Crown of the Human Person
The Face: Focus of the Person
Face to Face with God
The Neck: Bastion of Pride
The Nose: Wrath and Patience
The Hair: Vitality and Eroticism
5. "They Have Eyes But Do Not See"
Eyes and Gaze
God Sees
Faith Comes (Also) from Seeing
Seeing and Hearing as Recognizing and Understanding
The Evil Eye
6. "Let Anyone with Ears to Hear Listen!"
"Hearing Is Useful to Those Who Can Hear"
"Hear, O Israel!"
God Hears
Opening the Ears
7. "My Mouth Shall Declare Your Praise"
Eating, Laughing, Kissing, Speaking
Diplomatic and Wise Speech
The Healing and Polluting Mouth
The Speechless Mouth
The Violent Mouth
God's Mouth and Human Words
The Mouth That Speaks Praise
8. "With a Mighty Hand and an Outstretched Arm"
Gestures: The Language of the Hands
Left and Right Hands
Creative and Destructive, Powerful and Violent Hands
Hand and Penis
The Finger of God
With a Mighty Hand and an Outstretched Arm
The World-Creating and World-Sustaining Hands of God
God's Hidden Hand
9. "You Have Placed Everything Under His Feet"
Standing and Walking
The Enemy Beneath One's Feet
What Lies at People's Feet
At the Feet of God
Removing One's Shoes
Washing Feet
The Footsteps of Christ
10. "All Flesh Is Like Grass"
Bones as Sober Evidence of Death
Skin and Bones
Flesh and Bone Related
Signs of Mortality
Rushing Wind as the Spirit of God
The Evil Spirit
Notes
Bibliography
Illustration Credits
Index of Scripture

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