{"product_id":"the-body-of-the-cross-holy-victims-and-the-invention-of-the-atonement-hardback-9780823297993","title":"The Body of the Cross; Holy Victims and the Invention of the Atonement (Hardback) 9780823297993","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Body of the Cross\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHoly Victims and the Invention of the Atonement\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTravis E. Ables (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823297993\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 7 December 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e304 pages, 14 b\/w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.566 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\u003eThe Body of the Cross\u003c\/i\u003e is a study of holy victims in Western Christian history and how the uses of their bodies in Christian thought led to the idea of the cross as a substitutionary sacrifice. Since its first centuries, Christianity has traded on the suffering of victims—martyrs, mystics, and heretics—as substitutes for the Christian social body. These victims secured holiness, either by their own sacred power or by their reprobation and rejection. Just as their bodies were mediated in eucharistic, social, and Christological ways, so too did the flesh of Jesus Christ become one of those holy substitutes. But it was only late in Western history that he took on the function of the exemplary victim.\u003cbr\u003e In tracing the story of this embodied development, \u003ci\u003eThe Body of the Cross\u003c\/i\u003e gives special attention to popular spirituality, religious dissent, and the writing of women throughout Christian history. It examines the symbol of the cross as it functions in key moments throughout this history, including the parting of the ways of Judaism and Christianity, the gnostic debates, martyr traditions, and medieval affective devotion and heresy. Finally, in a Reformation era haunted by divine wrath, these themes concentrated in the unique concept that Jesus Christ died on the cross to absorb divine punishment for sin: a holy body and a rejected body in one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePreface\u003c\/i\u003e   vii\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e   1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1\u003c\/b\u003e The Way of Darkness and the Way of Light: The Cross as Boundary Marker in Early Christianity   15\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2\u003c\/b\u003e The Body of the Martyr and the Body of Christ   37\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3\u003c\/b\u003e The Politics of Holy Bodies and the Invention of the Cross   57\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4\u003c\/b\u003e Between Hope and Fear: Monastic Bodies at the Foot of the Cross   75\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e5\u003c\/b\u003e Bodies Pierced by the Cross: Popular Devotion, Popular Heresy   101\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e6\u003c\/b\u003e The Bitter Christ and the Sweet Christ: The Cross and the German Reformations   129\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e7\u003c\/b\u003e Holy Bodies and the Sacrifice of the Self:\u003cbr\u003e Divine Wrath, Discipline, and the Cross in the Reformations   156\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eConclusion\u003c\/b\u003e   187\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e   199\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBibliography\u003c\/i\u003e   235\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e   251\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":52580465279256,"sku":"9780823297993","price":104.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-body-of-the-cross-holy-victims-and-the-invention-of-the-atonement-hardback-9780823297993","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}