- Title Pages
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Transdisciplinapy Theological Colloquia
- Acknowledgments
- Apophatic Bodies
- Introduction
- The Cloud of the Impossible: Embodiment and Apophasis
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Subtle Embodiments: Imagining the Holy in Late Antiquity
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“Being Neither Oneself Nor Someone Else”:
The Apophatic Anthropology of Dionysius the Areopagite
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Bodies without Wholes: Apophatic Excess and Fragmentation in
Augustine's City of God
* - Bodies Still Unrisen, Events Still Unsaid: A Hermeneutic of Bodies without Flesh
- In the Image of the Invisible
- “The Body is No Body”
- Revisioning the Body Apophatically: Incarnation and the Acosmic Naturalism of Habad Hasidism
- Bodies of the Void: Polyphilia and Theoplicity
- The Metaphysics of the Body
-
Emptying Apophasis of Deception: Considering a Duplicitous
Kierkegaardian Declaration
* - Feminist Theology and the Sensible Unsaying of Mysticism
-
The Infinite Found in Human Form: Intertwinings of Cosmology and
Incarnation
* - The Apophasis of Divine Freedom: Saving “the Name” and the Neighbor from Human Mastery
- Let It Be: Finding Grace with God through the Gelassenheit of the Annunciation
- Intimate Mysteries: The Apophatics of Sensible Love
- Contributors
“The Body is No Body”
“The Body is No Body”
The problem of the “body”, apophatically speaking, is perspectival and linguistic. It is a problem of language, a language whose nature petitions a discourse that gives quality without concretizing that value in an object. What may be needed is an apophatic (nonliteral) manner in which to speak of bodies in order that the discourse itself be apophatically “speaking away” without being less expressive. An example of this kind of discourse can be seen in the writing of Wallace Stevens, for whom poetry is such an apophatic “speaking away”. So it is with the apophatic body that is no body. It is an embodying perspective that can give valence to life and meaning, a vertical dimension in which ordinariness incandesces, flaming and flowering. The body that is no body is incandescence.
Keywords: body, language, value, Wallace Stevens, incandescence, apophatic body, poetry
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- Title Pages
-
Transdisciplinapy Theological Colloquia
- Acknowledgments
- Apophatic Bodies
- Introduction
- The Cloud of the Impossible: Embodiment and Apophasis
-
Subtle Embodiments: Imagining the Holy in Late Antiquity
* -
“Being Neither Oneself Nor Someone Else”:
The Apophatic Anthropology of Dionysius the Areopagite
* -
Bodies without Wholes: Apophatic Excess and Fragmentation in
Augustine's City of God
* - Bodies Still Unrisen, Events Still Unsaid: A Hermeneutic of Bodies without Flesh
- In the Image of the Invisible
- “The Body is No Body”
- Revisioning the Body Apophatically: Incarnation and the Acosmic Naturalism of Habad Hasidism
- Bodies of the Void: Polyphilia and Theoplicity
- The Metaphysics of the Body
-
Emptying Apophasis of Deception: Considering a Duplicitous
Kierkegaardian Declaration
* - Feminist Theology and the Sensible Unsaying of Mysticism
-
The Infinite Found in Human Form: Intertwinings of Cosmology and
Incarnation
* - The Apophasis of Divine Freedom: Saving “the Name” and the Neighbor from Human Mastery
- Let It Be: Finding Grace with God through the Gelassenheit of the Annunciation
- Intimate Mysteries: The Apophatics of Sensible Love
- Contributors
