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The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200–1336 by Caroline Walker Bynum is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
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Bynum examines several periods between the 3rd and 14th centuries in which discussions of the body were central to Western eschatology, and suggests that Western attitudes toward the body that arose from these discussions still undergird our modern notions of the individual. He explores the "plethora of ideas about resurrection in patristic and medieval literature--the metaphors, tropes, and arguments in which the ideas were garbed, their context and their consequences," in order to understand h
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Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Caroline Walker Bynum
- Publisher
- New York: Columbia University Press
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780231515627
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- History, Christian, Religion
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
Other editions & translations
- The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200–1336: Authors and Saints in Renaissance Italy (American Lectures on the History of Religions Book 15) (2017)
- The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200–1336 : expanded edition (2017)
- The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336 (Lectures on the History of Religions, No. 15) (2017)
- The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336 (Lectures on the History of Religions, No. 15) (1995)
- The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200–1336 (1995)
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