In The Resurrection of the Body, noted scholar Caroline Bynum addressed the idea of bodily resurrection in the ancient and medieval West with respect to persecution and conversion, social hierachy, and cultural burial practices. Bynum suggests that Western attitudes toward the body that arose in these times still undergird our modern notions of the individual.
Bynum examines several periods between the 3rd and 14th centuries in which discussions of the body were central to Western eschatology, and suggests that Western attitudes toward the body that arose from these discussions still undergird our modern notions of the individual. He explores the "plethora of ideas about resurrection in patristic and medieval literature--the metaphors, tropes, and arguments in which the ideas were garbed, their context and their consequences," in order to understand human life after death.
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RESURRECTION OF THE BODY IN WE
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Product Weight: 1.69 lbs
Author: Bynum, Caroline Walker
Publication Date: 1995-01-01
Language: English
Series: American Lectures on the History of Religions
Publisher: COLUMBIA UNIV PR
Dewey Decimal Classification: 236.809
Number of Units in Package: 1
ISBN: 9780231081269
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