The Sacred Body

Name: The Sacred Body
Author: David Jasper
ISBN: 9781602581418

Asceticism in Religion, Literature, Art, and Culture

by David Jasper

Published by: Baylor University Press

Imprint: Baylor University Press

Continuing the work began in The Sacred Desert, David Jasper here turns his attention to the body, seeking a profound understanding of what it means to be in the flesh. A deeply autobiographical journey...

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Continuing the work began in The Sacred Desert, David Jasper here turns his attention to the body, seeking a profound understanding of what it means to be in the flesh. A deeply autobiographical journey through disparate written texts (in literature, philosophy, theology and religion), art, and cinema, The Sacred Body rigorously and artfully pursues the body of the Christian tradition of "the Word made flesh"--a body torn and crucified, resurrected, and divinized, embracing both deep suffering and profound joy. Engaging ascetic traditions that began among fourth-century desert monastics, as well as George Herbert, Simone Weil, Meister Eckhart, James Joyce and others, David Jasper once again provides a bold, learned, and original theological exploration.

Acknowledgements

Illustrations

Preface

1. Introduction: A Sunlit Landscape amid the Night of Non-Being

2. The Soul as Sacred Space

3. The Body, Sacred and Profane

4. The Word and the Body

5. Asceticism as a Way of Love with a Modern Excursus

6. Asceticism Imposed and Recovered: Velasquez, Martha and the Eyes of Faith

7. The Eucharistic Body in Literature and Modern Experience: George Herbert and Simone Weil

8. Holiness and the Resurrection Body: Meister Eckhart and James Joyce

9. Romanticism and the Recovery of the Sacred in Language

10. Towards Conclusions: Theological Possibilities

Bibliography

Index

David Jasper is Professor of Literature and Theology at the University of Glasgow and is Distinguished Overseas Professor of Comparative Literature in the School of Liberal Arts at Renmin University of China.