Description: Embodied God : Seeing the Divine in Luke-Acts and the Early Church, Hardcover by Wilson, Brittany E., ISBN 0190080825, ISBN-13 9780190080822, Brand New, Free shipping in the US As inheritors of Platonic traditions, many Jews and Christians today do not believe that God has a body. God is instead invisible and incorporeal, and even though Christians believe that God can be seen in Jesus, God otherwise remains veiled from human sight. In this ground-breaking 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, Lukes depiction of Jesuss body also points ahead to future
controversies concerning his divinity and humanity in the early church. Indeed, questions concerning Gods body are inextricably linked with Christology and shed light on how we are to understand Jesuss 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.
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Book Title: Embodied God : Seeing the Divine in Luke-Acts and the Early Churc
Number of Pages: 360 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Embodied God : Seeing the Divine in Luke-Acts and the Early Church
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Subject: Christian Church / History, Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / General
Item Height: 1.2 in
Publication Year: 2021
Item Weight: 24.3 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.3 in
Author: Brittany E. Wilson
Subject Area: Religion
Item Width: 6.4 in
Format: Hardcover
