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Saving Face - Enfacement, Shame, Theology (Paperback, New Ed)
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Saving Face - Enfacement, Shame, Theology (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: Explorations in Practical, Pastoral and Empirical Theology
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Faces are all around us and fundamentally shape both everyday
experience and our understanding of people. To lose face is to be
alienated and experience shame, to be enfaced is to enjoy the
fullness of life. In theology as in many other disciplines faces,
as both physical phenomena and symbols, have not received the
critical, appreciative attention they deserve. This pioneering book
explores the nature of face and enfacement, both human and divine.
Pattison discusses questions concerning what face is, how important
face is in human life and relationships, and how we might
understand face, both as a physical phenomenon and as a series of
socially-inflected symbols and metaphors about the self and the
body. Examining what face means in terms of inclusion and exclusion
in contemporary human society and how it is related to shame,
Pattison reveals what the experience of people who have
difficulties with faces tell us about our society, our
understandings of, and our reactions to face. Exploring this
ubiquitous yet ignored area of both contemporary human experience
and of the Christian theological tradition, Pattison explains how
Christian theology understands face, both human and divine, and the
insights might it offer to understanding face and enfacement. Does
God in any sense have a physically visible face? What is the
significance of having an enfaced or faceless God for Christian
life and practice? What does the vision of God mean now? If we want
to take face and defacing shame seriously, and to get them properly
into perspective, we may need to change our theology, thought and
practice - changing our ways of thinking about God and about
theology.
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