The Body in Jesus' Tomb as a Hylemorphic Puzzle: a Response to Jaeger and Sienkiewicz and an Application for Christological Anthropology
In a recent paper, Andrew Jaeger and Jeremy Sienkiewicz attempt to provide an answer consistent with Thomistic hylemorphism for the following question: what was the ontological status of Christ’s dead body? Answering this question has christological anthropological import: whatever one says about Ch...
| Published in: | Perichoresis |
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| Subtitles: | "Fundamental Aspects of Christological Anthropology: Theological and Philosophical Perspectives in Contemporary Debates" |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sciendo, De Gruyter
2021
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Perichoresis
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| RelBib Classification: | KAE Church history 900-1300; high Middle Ages NBE Anthropology NBF Christology VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
Christological Anthropology
B Aquinas B Jaeger B Philosophical Anthropology |
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| Summary: | In a recent paper, Andrew Jaeger and Jeremy Sienkiewicz attempt to provide an answer consistent with Thomistic hylemorphism for the following question: what was the ontological status of Christ’s dead body? Answering this question has christological anthropological import: whatever one says about Christ’s dead body, has implications for what one can say about any human’s dead body. Jaeger and Sienkiewicz answer the question this way: that Jesus’ corpse was prime matter lacking a substantial form; that it was existing form-less matter. I argue that their argument for this answer is unsound. I say, given Thomistic hylemorphism, there was no human body in Jesus’s tomb between his death and resurrection. Once I show their argument to be unsound, I provide a christological anthropological upshot: since there was no human body in Christ’s tomb, there are no human bodies in any tomb. |
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| ISSN: | 2284-7308 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Perichoresis
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2478/perc-2021-0012 |