{"product_id":"the-corporeal-imagination-9780812223552","title":"The Corporeal Imagination","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFocusing on saintly human bodies as relics, animated icons, and performers of the holy in hagiography, this book analyzes how Christians in late antiquity saw the material world with new eyes as a medium for the disclosure of the divine in the earthly realm.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Corporeal Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e is a thoughtful, sophisticated, and fascinating book. It is important and delightful reading, a skillful interpretation that makes vivid a central problematic on which Christian belief and practice depend, namely, the simultaneous establishment of the nonnegotiable difference of matter and the holy and the perennial urge to bring them as close together as possible, yet without collapsing one into the other.\" * \u003ci\u003eJournal of Religion\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"[Cox Miller's] probings are meticulous, provocative, and incisive. To read this book is to have one's own viewing turned inside out.\" * \u003ci\u003eTheological Studies\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"A highly original contribution to the history of Christianity as well as to the study of religion. Eloquent and learned, this book offers many new insights and models for reflection. \u003ci\u003eThe Corporeal Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e will appeal to scholars of religion, theologians, historians of late antiquity, and historians of art.\" * J. Rebecca Lyman, Professor Emerita, Church Divinity School of the Pacific *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Chapter One: Bodies and Selves\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Two: Bodies in Fragments\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Three: Dazzling Bodies\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Four: Bodies and Spectacles\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Five: Ambiguous Bodies\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Six: Subtle Bodies\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Seven: Animated Bodies and Icons\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Eight: Saintly Bodies as Image-Flesh\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Nine: Incongruous Bodies\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405703913815,"sku":"9780812223552","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812223552.jpg?v=1730493337","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-corporeal-imagination-9780812223552","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}