Sarah Coakley 
The Broken Body [PDF ebook] 
Israel, Christ and Fragmentation

A fascinating collection of essays exploring a fresh contemporary approach to the person and doctrine of Jesus Christ

How should Christians think about the person of Jesus Christ today? In this book Sarah Coakley argues that this question has to be ‘broken open’ in new and unexpected ways: by an awareness of the deep spiritual demands of the Christological task and its strikingly ‘apophatic’ dimensions; by a probing of the paradoxical ways in which Judaism and Christianity are drawn together in Christ, even by those issues which seem to ‘break’ them most decisively apart; and by an exploration of the mode of Christ’s presence in the eucharist, with its intensification, ‘ breaking’ and re-gathering of human desires. In this sequel to her celebrated earlier volume of essays, Powers and Submissions, Coakley returns to its unifying theme of divine power and contemplative submission, and weaves a new web of Christological outcomes which remain replete with controversial implications for gender, spirituality and ethics.

Readers will also find:

* A discerning philosophical analysis of the problem of the ‘identity’ of Jesus Christ, including a rich discussion of the Chalcedonian tradition and its precursors;

* A comprehensive exploration of the themes that seem to divide Judaism and Christianity and yet richly inform the issue of their eschatological future together;

* An insightful exploration of the Christian eucharist and its ‘efficacy’ as a lens on the topic of Christology;

* A complete new treatment of the meaning of the ‘apophatic’ Christ.

Perfect for academics working in the fields of systematic theology, the philosophy of religion, and early Christian studies, The Broken Body: Israel, Christ and Fragmentation will also benefit students and academics in Jewish and Christian relations, as well as feminist and gender theory.

Table des matières

Preface ix

Acknowledgements xii

Prologue: The Broken Body xv

Part 1 Seeking The Identity of Christ 1

1 On the Identity of the Risen Jesus: In Quest of the ‘Apophatic’ Christ 3

2 Does Keno¯sis Rest on a Mistake? Three Kenotic Models in Patristic Exegesis 26

3 ‘Mingling’ in Gregory of Nyssa’s Christology: A Reconsideration 47

4 What Does Chalcedon Solve and What Does It Not? Some Reflections on the Status and Meaning of the Chalcedonian ‘Definition’ 64

Part 2 Israel and Christ in Contestation? 87

5 ‘Broken’ Monotheism? Intra-Divine Complexity and the Origins of the Doctrine of the Trinity 89

6 On the ‘Fearfulness’ of Forgiveness: Jewish and Christian Perspectives 112

7 On Clouds and Veils: Divine Presence and ‘Feminine’ Secrets in Revelation and Nature 130

8 In Defence of Sacrifice: Gender, Selfhood and the Binding of Isaac 166

Part 3 The Eucharist, Desire and Fragmentation 193

9 In Persona Christi: Who, or Where, Is Christ at the Altar? 195

10 Sacrifice Re- visited: Blood and Gender 216

11 Gift Re- told: Spirals of Grace 239

12 Real Presence, Real Absence: The Eucharist and the ‘Apophatic’ Christ 261

Index 287

A propos de l’auteur

Sarah Coakley, FBA is the Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity emerita, University of Cambridge, and an honorary Professor of St Andrews University and of the Australian Catholic University (Melbourne and Rome). Amongst her previous publications are Powers and Submissions; God, Sexuality and the Self; The New Asceticism; and the Gifford Lectures of 2012, Sacrifice Regained: Evolution, Cooperation and God. She is currently at work on the remaining volumes of her systematic theology.