The Gospel of John's account of doubting Thomas is often told as a
lesson about the veracity and triumph of Christian faith. And yet
it is a story about wounds. Interpretations of this Gospel
narrative, by focusing on Christ's victory in the resurrection,
reflect Christianity's unease with the wounds that remain on the
body of the risen Jesus. By returning readers to this familiar
passage, Resurrecting Wounds expands the scope of the Upper Room to
the present world where wounds mark all of humanity. Shelly Rambo
rereads the Thomas story and the history of its interpretation
through the lens of trauma studies to reflect on the ways that the
wounds of race, gender, and war persist. Wounds do not simply go
away, even though a close reading of John Calvin reveals his
theological investments in removing wounds. This erasure reflects a
dominant mode of Christian thinking, but it is not the only
Christian reading. By contrast, Macrina's scar, in Gregory of
Nyssa's account of her life and death, displays how resurrection
can be inscribed in wounds, particularly in the illumination of her
body after her death. The scar, produced in and through a mother's
touch, recalls a healing, linking resurrection to the work of
tending wounds. Much like Christ's wounds and Macrina's scar,
racial wounds can be found on the skin of America's collective
life. The wounds of racial histories, unhealed, resurface again and
again. The wounds of war persist as well, despite a cultural
calculus that links the suffering of a soldier with that of Christ.
Again, the visceral display of Jesus' wounds, when placed at the
center of Thomas' encounter in the Upper Room, enacts a vision of
resurrecting that addresses the real harm of the real wounds of
war. The powerful Upper Room images of resurrectionaencounters with
wounds, the invitation to touch, and the formation of a
communityapresent visions of truth-telling and of healing that
grapple with the pressing questions of wounds surfacing in the
midst of human encounters with violence, suffering, and trauma.
While traditional accounts of resurrection in Christian theology
have focused on the afterlife, this book forges a theology of
resurrection wounds in the afterliving. By returning again and
again to Christ's woundedness, we discover ways to live with our
own.
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