{"product_id":"material-mystery-the-flesh-of-the-world-in-three-mythic-bodies-hardback-9780823294541","title":"Material Mystery; The Flesh of the World in Three Mythic Bodies (Hardback) 9780823294541","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMaterial Mystery\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Flesh of the World in Three Mythic Bodies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKarmen MacKendrick (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823294541\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 17 August 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e224 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.496 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaterial Mystery\u003c\/i\u003e considers three apparently anthropocentric myths that are central to Abrahamic religions—those of the primal human, the incarnated and possibly divine redeemer, and the resurrected body. At first glance, these stories reinforce a human-centered theology and point to a very anthropomorphic God. Taking them seriously seems to ignore the material turn in the humanities entirely, with the same sort of willful ignorance that some of our politicians show in declaring that their myths count as facts, or that the point of the rest of the world is to further human consumption. \u003cbr\u003e But it is possible, Karmen MacKendrick shows, to read these figures through a particular tradition that emerges from the Hebrew Bible, the tradition of Wisdom as a creative force. Wisdom texts are common across the ancient Near East. As the idea of creative Wisdom develops from antiquity into the middle ages, it gathers philosophical influences from a range of philosophical traditions. This exuberantly promiscuous impurity—intellectual, artistic, and theological—generates new interpretive possibilities. In these interpretations, each human-like figure opens up onto the world''s matter, as an interdependent part of it, and matter is thoroughly mixed with divinity. Such mythic readings complement our factual, scientific understanding of the material world, to engage wider kinds of knowing and affective attention—particularly Wisdom''s combination of care and delight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e: New Materialism, Old Wisdom   1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1\u003c\/b\u003e Complex Truth: Myth, Facts, and Matter   15\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2\u003c\/b\u003e Adam's Skin: The Strangely Bounded Primal Person   38\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3\u003c\/b\u003e Limitless Bounding: The Valentinian Body of Christ   59\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4\u003c\/b\u003e Glorious Return: Resurrected Bodies   92\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAfterword\u003c\/b\u003e   125\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e   133\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e   135\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBibliography\u003c\/i\u003e   181\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e   199\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52580462985496,"sku":"9780823294541","price":92.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/material-mystery-the-flesh-of-the-world-in-three-mythic-bodies-hardback-9780823294541","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}