Flesh Made Word
Medieval Women Mystics, Writing, and the Incarnation
Will be published approx. on 17. October 2013
Book
Hardback
246 pages
978-1-60258-753-3 (ISBN)
Description
For most of Christian history, the incarnation designated Christ as God made man. The obvious connection between God and the male body too often excluded women and the female body. In Flesh Made Word, Emily A. Holmes displays how medieval women writers expanded traditional theology through the incarnational practice of writing. Holmes draws inspiration for feminist theology from the writings of these medieval women mystics as well as French feminist philosophers of ecriture feminine . The female body is then prioritized in feminist Christology, rather than circumvented. Flesh Made Word is a fresh, inclusive theology of the incarnation.
Reviews / Votes
"Flesh Made Word brings medieval mystical writers and post-modern theorists into dialogue in order to demonstrate their relevance for a contemporary feminist theology and a theology of the Incarnation. This is an engaging and elegant work of history and theology." -- M Shawn Copeland, Associate Professor of Systematic Theology, Boston College "In clear and graceful prose, Holmes guides contemporary readers through?the various ways that certain medieval women we've come to call 'mystics'?gave textual flesh to divine love. She offers us resources for writing new incarnations of the?theological for our own time and place. A rich mix of theory and practice,?language and what exceeds it, the historical and the contemporary." --Ellen T. Armour, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Associate Professor of Feminist Theology, Vanderbilt Divinity School "It is a rare achievement for a text to embody what the author describes in theory. In Flesh Made Word, Emily Holmes joins medieval mystics Hadewijch, Angela, and Porete in writing as a practice of incarnation. Her engagement of feminist theorists, feminist and womanist theologians, and queer scholars is thorough, creative, and transformative. Each theoretically rich turn is grounded in the social impact of theologies of incarnation for her medieval subjects as well as contemporary ethical and spiritual practices." --Kate Ott, Assistant Professor of Christian Social Ethics, Drew Theological SchoolMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Waco
United States
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 158 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
517 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60258-753-3 (9781602587533)
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E-Book
11/2013
Baylor University Press
€53.99
Available for download
Person
Emily A. Holmes is Associate Professor, Department of Religion and Philosophy at Christian Brothers University and coauthor of Women, Writing, Theology: Transforming a Tradition of Exclusion. She lives in Memphis, Tennessee.
Content
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction, The Problem of Incarnation
1 Attending to Word and Flesh, An Inclusive Incarnation
2 Hadewijch of Brabant and the Mother of Love
3 Angela of Foligno Writing the Body of Christ
4 Writing Annihilation with Marguerite Porete
5 Transcendence Incarnate, Apophatic Bodies and the Apophatic Christ
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction, The Problem of Incarnation
1 Attending to Word and Flesh, An Inclusive Incarnation
2 Hadewijch of Brabant and the Mother of Love
3 Angela of Foligno Writing the Body of Christ
4 Writing Annihilation with Marguerite Porete
5 Transcendence Incarnate, Apophatic Bodies and the Apophatic Christ
Bibliography
Index