medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Hello: I am a browser of this list, as my main interest in Anglo-Saxon and
medieval times is the law, and also the legal effect of the coronation.
However, as a practicing Christian, it has seemed to me for years that the
celebration of Jesus' crucifixion rather than His resurrection as the symbol
for Christianity, is due to the dominating masculine mind-set. As an image,
the crucifixion is a replication the male symbol, while the resurrection
(the coming out of the cave/womb re-born) is a female one. I have often
wondered about this. We should probably be wearing, instead of little
crosses, little hollowed empty caves. Without the resurrection, Christianity
as we know it could not exist.
Best,
.................m
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Subject: Re: [M-R] Resurrection Bodies?
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Thank you for the response and calling us all back to the original inquiry
that I raised a few weeks ago. I have tried to keep the two dimensions
separate (the resurrection of Jesus and the resurrection of human beings)
though they interconnect at various points as the latter relies on the
earlier dimension.
One of the major questions I have had in the back of my mind as I work on
this theme of the resurrection of Jesus is: what happened to what Paul
stated so clearly in I Corinthians 15 in medieval theology and spirituality?
i.e., Paul states that without the resurrection of Jesus the Christian faith
is meaningless. But it seems that, with so much attention focused on the
passion and death of Jesus, the resurrection of Jesus was not lost, but
certainly it appears to have lost its primary and central focus in medieval
Christian theology (and art?). Certain Pauline scholars have argued that
Paul was totally focused on the resurrection of Jesus because it was the
Risen Christ who appeared to him on the way to Damascus. In fact, a recent
book on Paul and his Letter to the Romans argues that it is not faith per se
that is central to the letter (as Luther believed) but it is the object of
faith that is central to Paul: the resurrection of Jesus. If this is the
case, how did it happen that medieval theologians, artists, mystics, etc.
lost sight of this central teaching of Paul?
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Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 9:01 PM
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Subject: Re: [M-R] Resurrection Bodies?
medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
As I recall, this thread began with a discussion of medieval representations
of the risen Christ.
I'd remind the list (as if you needed reminding :-)) that Mary Magdelene did
not recognize Jesus when she encountered him post-Resurrection. Which leads
me into my second point. I was recently reading a book about St Paul, a book
whose title I can't recall, in which the author discusses the body of
post-Resurrection Jesus and how he appeared-if he did appear- to Paul. Very
interesting and pertinent to the original query.
I'll try to find the title and post it later.
MG
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