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Material Mystery analyzes three anthropomorphic figures from religious myths: the bodies of Adam and Christ and the resurrected or “glorious” body. Using Jewish and Christian Wisdom traditions, the book argues that these myths help us to understand the interaction, interdependence, and divine character of all matter.

Table of Contents

Introduction: New Materialism, Old Wisdom | 1
1 Complex Truth: Myth, Facts, and Matter | 15
2 Adam’s Skin: The Strangely Bounded Primal Person | 38
3 Limitless Bounding: The Valentinian Body of Christ | 59
4 Glorious Return: Resurrected Bodies | 92
Afterword | 125
Acknowledgments | 133
Notes | 135
Bibliography | 181
Index | 199

Material Mystery

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      Publisher Fordham University Press
      Published 17 August 2021
      ISBN-13 9780823294558
      978-0823294558
      ISBN-10 0823294552
      Also in:
      Philosophy of mind History of religion

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Material Mystery analyzes three anthropomorphic figures from religious myths: the bodies of Adam and Christ and the resurrected or “glorious” body. Using Jewish and Christian Wisdom traditions, the book argues that these myths help us to understand the interaction, interdependence, and divine character of all matter.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction: New Materialism, Old Wisdom | 1
      1 Complex Truth: Myth, Facts, and Matter | 15
      2 Adam’s Skin: The Strangely Bounded Primal Person | 38
      3 Limitless Bounding: The Valentinian Body of Christ | 59
      4 Glorious Return: Resurrected Bodies | 92
      Afterword | 125
      Acknowledgments | 133
      Notes | 135
      Bibliography | 181
      Index | 199

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