Heavenly Bodies

K. G. Hammar former Archbishop of the Church of Sweden "Ola Sigurdson writes kaleidoscopically. When you think that you have gotten hold of the question at hand, he shakes his material and new perspectives emerge. This book deserves to become a classic. It is a mine where one can continually retrieve new material illuminating all the questions having to do with the body - and that seems to concern everything in heaven and on earth."Anders Olsson Stockholm University "A monumental work, extraordinarily learned and eminently accessible, even to a non-Christian reader such as myself."Brian Brock University of Aberdeen "This book has needed to be written for a long time now a philosophically robust, historically informed, yet genuinely theological account of human embodiment. Ola Sigurdson offers us a gripping account of how the Christian confession of Christ's incarnation and our embodied condition reciprocally illumine each other. Masterful."Werner G. Jeanrond University of Oxford "Christian faith, hope, and love are always embodied emerging neither solely from an individual body nor solely from a social body. Rather, our understanding of our body, our bodies, and their interrelations is never stable but is shifting, depending on our eschatological experiences of our emerging selves, our social embodiments, and our relationship to God's radical otherness. Sigurdson's impressive study offers compelling insights into our attempts to relate to our own complex embodiment as persons, communities, churches, and humanity. Seeing the body as the medium of communication for God's presence, Sigurdson presents a critical and superbly readable reexamination of Christian experiences and concepts of the body human, divine, and incarnate."" K. G. Hammar -- former Archbishop of the Church of Sweden -Ola Sigurdson writes kaleidoscopically. When you think that you have gotten hold of the question at hand, he shakes his material and new perspectives emerge. This book deserves to become a classic. It is a mine where one can continually retrieve new material illuminating all the questions having to do with the body - and that seems to concern everything in heaven and on earth.- Anders Olsson -- Stockholm University -A monumental work, extraordinarily learned and eminently accessible, even to a non-Christian reader such as myself.- Brian Brock -- University of Aberdeen -This book has needed to be written for a long time now -- a philosophically robust, historically informed, yet genuinely theological account of human embodiment. Ola Sigurdson offers us a gripping account of how the Christian confession of Christ's incarnation and our embodied condition reciprocally illumine each other. Masterful.- Werner G. Jeanrond -- University of Oxford -Christian faith, hope, and love are always embodied -- emerging neither solely from an individual body nor solely from a social body. Rather, our understanding of our body, our bodies, and their interrelations is never stable but is shifting, depending on our eschatological experiences of our emerging selves, our social embodiments, and our relationship to God's radical otherness. Sigurdson's impressive study offers compelling insights into our attempts to relate to our own complex embodiment as persons, communities, churches, and humanity. Seeing the body as the medium of communication for God's presence, Sigurdson presents a critical and superbly readable reexamination of Christian experiences and concepts of the body -- human, divine, and incarnate.- K. G. Hammar former Archbishop of the Church of Sweden "Ola Sigurdson writes kaleidoscopically. When you think that you have gotten hold of the question at hand, he shakes his material and new perspectives emerge. This book deserves to become a classic. It is a mine where one can continually retrieve new material illuminating all the questions having to do with the body - and that seems to concern every

Ola Sigurdson is Professor of Religious studies/Systematic Theology at the University of Gothenberg