{"product_id":"the-corporeal-imagination-signifying-the-holy-in-late-ancient-christianity-paperback-softback-9780812223552","title":"The Corporeal Imagination; Signifying the Holy in Late Ancient Christianity (Paperback \/ softback) 9780812223552","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Corporeal Imagination\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSignifying the Holy in Late Ancient Christianity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePatricia Cox Miller (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812223552\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 5 January 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages, 13 illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.648 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith few exceptions, the scholarship on religion in late antiquity has emphasized its tendencies toward transcendence, abstraction, and spirit at the expense of matter. In \u003ci\u003eThe Corporeal Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e, Patricia Cox Miller argues instead that ancient Christianity took a material turn between the fourth and seventh centuries. During this period, Miller contends, there occurred a major shift in the ways in which the human being was oriented in relation to the divine, a shift that reconfigured the relationship between materiality and meaning in a positive direction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Corporeal Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e is a groundbreaking investigation into the theological poetics of material substance in late ancient Christian texts. From hagiographies to literary descriptions of sacred paintings to treatises on relics and theurgy, Miller examines a wide variety of ancient texts to reveal how Christian writers increasingly described the matter of the world as invested with divine power. By appealing to the reader's sensory imagination, Christian texts endowed phenomena like relics, saints' bodies in hagiography, and saints' presence in icons with a visual and tactile presence. The book draws on a variety of contemporary theoretical models to elucidate the significance of all these materials in ancient religious life and imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\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\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52676619763992,"sku":"9780812223552","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-corporeal-imagination-signifying-the-holy-in-late-ancient-christianity-paperback-softback-9780812223552","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}