During the late second and early third centuries C.E. the
resurrection became a central question for intellectual commentary,
with increasingly tense divisions between those who interpreted the
resurrection as a bodily experience and those who did not. The
relationship between the resurrected person and their mortal flesh
was also a key point of discussion, especially in regards to sexual
desires, body parts, and practices. Early Christians struggled to
articulate how and why these bodily features related to the
imagined resurrected self. The problems posed by the resurrection
thus provoked theological analysis of the mortal body, sexual
desire and gender. Resurrecting Parts is the first study to examine
the place of gender and sexuality in early Christian debates on the
nature of resurrection, investigating how the resurrected body has
been interpreted by writers of this period in order to address the
nature of sexuality and sexual difference. In particular, Petrey
considers the instability of early Christian attempts to separate
maleness and femaleness. Bodily parts commonly signified sexual
difference, yet it was widely thought that future resurrected
bodies would not experience desire or reproduction. In the absence
of sexuality, this insistence on difference became difficult to
maintain. To achieve a common, shared identity and status for the
resurrected body that nevertheless preserved sexual difference,
treatises on the resurrection found it necessary to explain how and
in what way these parts would be transformed in the resurrection,
shedding all associations with sexual desires, acts, and
reproduction. Exploring a range of early Christian sources, from
the Greek and Latin fathers to the authors of the Nag Hammadi
writings, Resurrecting Parts is a fascinating resource for scholars
interested in gender and sexuality in classical antiquity, early
Christianity, asceticism, and, of course, the resurrection and the
body.
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