Brittany E.Wilson
The Embodied God: Seeing the Divine in Luke-Acts and the Early Church
The Embodied God: Seeing the Divine in Luke-Acts and the Early Church
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Many Jews and Christians today do not believe that God has a body, but Brittany E. Wilson argues that early Jews and Christians often envisioned God as having a visible form. Luke-Acts, in particular, emerges as an important example of a text that portrays God in visually tangible ways, showing that God is a perceptible, concrete being who is intimately intertwined with human fleshliness in the form of Jesus. Wilson's work reframes approaches to early Christology and calls for a new way of thinking about divine-and human-bodies and embodied experience.
Format: Hardback
Length: 360 pages
Publication date: 08 October 2021
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Many Jews and Christians today, as heirs of Platonic traditions, do not believe that God has a body. Instead, God is perceived as invisible and incorporeal, and while Christians believe that God can be seen in Jesus, God remains veiled from human sight. In this groundbreaking work, Brittany E. Wilson challenges this prevalent view by arguing that early Jews and Christians often envisioned God as having a visible form.
Within the New Testament, Luke-Acts in particular emerges as an important example of a text that portrays God in visually tangible ways. According to Luke, God is a perceptible, concrete being who can take on a variety of different forms, as well as a being who is intimately intertwined with human fleshliness in the form of Jesus. In this way, the God of Israel does not adhere to the incorporeal deity of Platonic philosophy, especially as read through post-Enlightenment eyes. Given the corporeal connections between God and Jesus, Luke's depiction of Jesus's body also points ahead to future controversies concerning his divinity and humanity in the early church. Indeed, questions concerning God's body are inextricably linked with Christology and shed light on how we are to understand Jesus's own visible embodiment in relation to God.
In The Embodied God, Wilson reframes approaches to early Christology within New Testament scholarship and calls for a new way of thinking about divine-and human-bodies and embodied experience.
Weight: 668g
Dimension: 243 x 164 x 29 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780190080822
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