The Body of the Cross : : Holy Victims and the Invention of the Atonement / / Travis E. Ables.
The Body of the Cross is a study of holy victims in Western Christian history and how the uses of their bodies in Christian thought led to the idea of the cross as a substitutionary sacrifice. Since its first centuries, Christianity has traded on the suffering of victims—martyrs, mystics, and hereti...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 14 b/w illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 / The Way of Darkness and the Way of Light: The Cross as Boundary Marker in Early Christianity
- 2 / The Body of the Martyr and the Body of Christ
- 3 / The Politics of Holy Bodies and the Invention of the Cross
- 4 / Between Hope and Fear: Monastic Bodies at the Foot of the Cross
- 5 / Bodies Pierced by the Cross: Popular Devotion, Popular Heresy
- 6 / The Bitter Christ and the Sweet Christ: The Cross and the German Reformations
- 7 / Holy Bodies and the Sacrifice of the Self: Divine Wrath, Discipline, and the Cross in the Reformations
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index