Sacrality and materiality : : locating intersections / / Rebecca A. Giselbrecht / Ralph Kunz (ed.).

Christian theology traditionally regards the sacramental as the polar opposite of the profane. The polarity is a memorial of contemporary desacralization, profanization, and sacralization that stands as a portal to the story of modern reality. In our liminal space, we neither de-sacralize our enviro...

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Place / Publishing House:Göttingen : : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,, 2015.
©2016
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (199 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Proceeding from the Virgin Shrine: The Birth of a Metaphor
  • Place
  • Theorizing Christian Spirituality: The Sacred, Identity & Everyday Practices
  • Crossing at the Intersections: Placemaking and the Holy
  • Spiritual Capital and Authentic Subjectivity
  • Embodiment
  • Embodied Knowing and the Unspeakable Sacred: Practice in Christian Spirituality
  • Sacrality and Corporeality-An Impossible Intersection?: Iconographic Insights and Mary Magdalene
  • Origen on the Goodness of the Body
  • "Accende lumen sensibus": On the Vocality and Sensuality of Prayer
  • Making the Meal Sacred in the Old Testament: Complexities and Possibilities for Christian Appropriation
  • The Spirituality and Materiality of the Sacraments in the Lutheran Tradition
  • Interiority and Christian Spirituality: Why Our Inner Lives are not Quite as Inner as We Might Like to Think
  • Sickness and Spirituality
  • Mysticism with Shoes On: Walking Out the Transcendent Life
  • The Intersection of Sacramentality and Materiality: Testimony
  • The Authors.