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The Rise of Bishops
(Hardcover)
David W. T. Brattston; Foreword by Manfred W Kohl
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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, 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.
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