The Resurrection Body

This chapter surveys the relevant ancient Christian and Jewish texts on the resurrection that discuss gender and sexuality and the scholarship about these topics. It provides particular emphasis on the Jesus of the Synoptic Gospels, Paul, and the early Christian reception of their ideas in the secon...

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Published in:The Oxford handbook of New Testament, gender, and sexuality
Main Author: Petrey, Taylor G. 1976- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2019
In: The Oxford handbook of New Testament, gender, and sexuality
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Jesus Christus / Paul Apostle / Resurrection / Spirituality / Feminist theology / Angel
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
HC New Testament
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Parallel Edition:Non-electronic
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Summary:This chapter surveys the relevant ancient Christian and Jewish texts on the resurrection that discuss gender and sexuality and the scholarship about these topics. It provides particular emphasis on the Jesus of the Synoptic Gospels, Paul, and the early Christian reception of their ideas in the second through fourth centuries. The saying of Jesus that those who are resurrected shall be “as angels” is central to early Christian theologies of the body and sexuality. Paul’s discussion of the nature of the resurrected body and the importance of the parts also informs how early Christians developed these ideas. The tension in early Christian writing about the resurrection was between those who emphasized continuity between the mortal and resurrected self, and those who emphasized a radical change between the two. Further, the chapter provides an overview to major scholarly methods and approaches to studying the resurrection, including feminist scholarship.
ISBN:0190213418
Contains:Enthalten in: The Oxford handbook of New Testament, gender, and sexuality
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190213398.013.31