Resurrecting Parts

Name: Resurrecting Parts
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Resurrecting PartsEarly Christians on Desire, Reproduction, and Sexual Difference\nAuthor(s): Taylor Petrey\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138906532, 978-1138906532\nSynopsis\nDuring the late second and early third centuries [url] the resurrection became a central question for intellectual commentary, with increasingly tense divisions between those who interpreted the resurrection as a bodily experience and those who did not. The relationship between the resurrected person and their mortal flesh was also a key point of discussion, especially in regards to sexual desires, body parts, and practices. Early Christians struggled to articulate how and why these bodily features related to the imagined resurrected self. The problems posed by the resurrection thus provoked theological analysis of the mortal body, sexual desire and gender.\n\nResurrecting Parts is the first study to examine the place of gender and sexual.