Subtle Embodiments: Imagining the Holy in Late Antiquity

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Negative Theology: Unfolding Traditions
6. The Cloud of the Impossible: Embodiment and Apophasis 23
7. Subtle Embodiments: Imagining the Holy in Late Antiquity 45
8. ‘‘Being Neither Oneself Nor Someone Else’’: The Apophatic Anthropology of Dionysius the Areopagite 59
9. Incarnations: Body/Image
10. Bodies without Wholes: Apophatic Excess and Fragmentation in Augustine’s City of God 77
11. Bodies Still Unrisen, Events Still Unsaid: A Hermeneutic of Bodies without Flesh 94
12. In the Image of the Invisible 117
13. More Mysterious Bodies: Veils, Voids, Visions
14. ‘‘The Body Is No Body’’ 135
15. Revisioning the Body Apophatically: Incarnation and the Acosmic Naturalism of Habad Hasidism 147
16. Bodies of the Void: Polyphilia and Theoplicity 200
17. Apophatic Ethics: Whose Body, Whose Speech?
18. The Metaphysics of the Body 225
19. Emptying Apophasis of Deception: Considering a Duplicitous Kierkegaardian Declaration 251
20. Feminist Theology and the Sensible Unsaying of Mysticism 273
21. The Infinite Found in Human Form: Intertwinings of Cosmology and Incarnation 286
22. Love Stories: Unspeakable Relations, Infinite Freedom
23. The Apophasis of Divine Freedom: Saving ‘‘the Name’’ and the Neighbor from Human Mastery 305
24. Let It Be: Finding Grace with God through the Gelassenheit of the Annunciation 329
25. Intimate Mysteries: The Apophatics of Sensible Love 349
26. NOTES 367
27. CONTRIBUTORS 465