Blood Theology

Seeing Red in Body- and God-Talk

AvEugene F. Rogers, Jr

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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The unsettling language of blood has been invoked throughout the history of Christianity. But until now there has been no truly sustained treatment of how Christians use blood to think with. Eugene F. Rogers Jr. discusses in his much-anticipated new book the sheer, surprising strangeness of Christian blood-talk, exploring the many and varied ways in which it offers a language where Christians cooperate, sacrifice, grow and disagree. He asks too how it is that blood-talk dominates when other explanations would do, and how blood seeps into places where it seems hardly to belong. Reaching beyond academic disputes, to consider how religious debates fuel civil ones, he shows that it is not only theologians or clergy who engage in blood-talk, but also lawmakers, judges, generals, doctors and voters at large. Religious arguments have significant societal consequences, Rogers contends; and for that reason secular citizens must do their best to understand them.

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-03-25
Mått:157 x 235 x 19 mm
Vikt:510 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:254
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108843287

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Eugene F. Rogers, Jr. is Professor of Religious Studies and of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is the author of six books, including Aquinas and the Supreme Court (2013) and Sexuality and the Christian Body (2003), which was named 'essential reading' by Christian Century among books published in the past 25 years.

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'This book offers an exhilarating reflection on what it is to think about, with and for the sake of blood; and to so think – as it has long been thought – within the Christian tradition, but not only the Christian. Eugene Rogers' theological reflections are at all times in fruitful dialogue with those of other faiths and of other disciplines, most notably Judaism and anthropology, from which he learns and deepens his thinking. Rogers does not present a systematic reflection on blood. Rather he repeats blood's contradictions through a series of fragments: chapters that address various sites of blood's use, its spilling into social thought, into different cultural domains. Rewarding its readers with ever-deepening insight, the book is a singular and powerful work of theology that will enthral and provoke.' Gerard Loughlin, Durham University

Innehållsförteckning

Part I. Why We See Red: 1. Blood marks the bounds of the body: Overtures and refrains; Part II. Blood Seeps in Where It Hardly Seems to Belong: Blood Unnecessary and Inexhaustible: 2. Blood after Isaac: Why God said 'Na'; 3. Blood after Leviticus: Separation and sacrifice; 4. Blood after the Last Supper: Jesus and the gender of blood; Part III. Blood Makes a Language in Which to Conduct Disputes: Family, Truth, and Tribe: 5. Bridegrooms of blood: Same-sex desire and the blood of Christ; 6. Red in tooth and claw: Evolution and the blood of Christ; 7. Blood purity and blood sacrifice: Castilians and Aztecs; Part IV. The Blood of God and at the Heart of Things: Causality Sacramental and Cosmic: 8. How the Eucharist causes salvation; 9. Blood in the Christology of things: Why things became human; Appendix: Review of Gil Anidjar's Blood: A Critique of Christianity.