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By Ola Sigurdson

Deep and extensive research of 2,000 years of Christian idea at the human body

Does Christianity scorn bodies? Friedrich Nietzsche idea so, etc for the reason that him have inspiration an analogous. Ola Sigurdson contends, on the contrary, that Christianity — understood appropriately — actually affirms human embodiment.

offering his confident contributions to theology with regards to either old and modern conceptions of the physique, Sigurdson starts off via investigating the anthropological implications of the doctrine of the incarnation. He then delves into the idea that of the gaze and discusses a particularly Christian "gaze of religion" that specializes in God embodied in Jesus. ultimately, he weaves those strands right into a modern Christian theology of embodiment.

Sigurdson's profound engagement with the full heritage of Christian existence and inspiration not just elucidates the spectrum of Christian views at the physique but in addition types a manner of considering traditionally and systematically that different theologians will locate stimulating and challenging.

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