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Theology and the Kinesthetic Imagination - Jonathan Edwards and the Making of Modernity (Hardcover)
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Theology and the Kinesthetic Imagination - Jonathan Edwards and the Making of Modernity (Hardcover)
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Beauty, bodily knowledge, and desire have emerged in late modern
Christian theology as candidates to reorient and reinvigorate
reflection. In this book, Kathryn Reklis offers a case study of how
those three elements converge in the work of Jonathan Edwards to
escape the false dichotomies of early modernity. She studies
Edwardss work in the context of the eighteenth-century colonial and
European revivals known as the Great Awakening and the series of
theological debates over the unruly bodies of revivalists. Seized
by the new birth, these people convulsed, wept, shouted, fainted,
leapt, and even levitated. For pro-revivalist Jonathan Edwards,
these bodily manifestations were signs of a divine and supernatural
light infused in the soulfor his opponents, clear proof of
irrationality and dangerous enthusiasm. Bodily ecstasy was at the
heart of a theological system marked by consummation in Gods
overwhelming sovereignty, which Edwards described as being
swallowed up in God. Reklis describes the theological meaning of
the bodys ecstasy as kinesthetic imagination, a term which extends
beyond the Great Awakening to trace the way bodily ecstasy
continues to be coded as the expression of a primitive, hysterical,
holistic, or natural self almost always in contrast to a modern,
rational, fragmented, or artificial self. Edwards, she shows, is an
excellent interlocutor for the exploration of kinesthetic
imagination and theology, especially as it relates to contemporary
questions about the role of beauty, body, and desire in theological
knowledge. He wrote explicitly about the role of the body in
theology, the centrality of affect in spiritual experience, and
anchored all of this in a theological system grounded in beauty as
his governing concept of divine reality. This book offers an
innovative reading of one of the most widely known American
theologians and offers this reading as provocation for debates
within contemporary conversations.
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