This subject can be taken for credit or audit ("just for fun")
Body Theology Summer Intensive 2004 9 credit points (162 demand hours)
Class Sessions: Monday to Friday 2-6 February 2004 8.45 am 12.15 pm & 1.15 4.15 pm
Venue: Uniting Church Centre for Ministry 16 Masons Drive, North Parramatta
Visiting Lecturer: Lisa Isherwood Professor of Feminist Liberation Theologies University College of St Mark & St John, Plymouth
Coordinator: Revd Dr Anita Monro Phone: 8838-8924; Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] With Assistance From: Dr Kathleen McPhillips Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities College of Arts, Education and Social Sciences, University of Western Sydney
_____________________________________________________________________ A. Introduction
OBJECTIVE
While incarnation is central to Christian belief, Christianity hasn't always had a positive theology of the body. Some streams of Christian thought have even seen the body as something to be denigrated and denied. Body theology seeks to explore this paradox and to reclaim the bodiliness of human beings as creatures of God. Such a reclamation asks us to take seriously that, in Jesus, God was one of us! And then to see how honouring Gods embodiment might affect how we think theologically about the church as body of Christ, the creation as Gods work, the hope of resurrection... Body theology is strongly influenced by feminist theology which recognises the experience of embodied humans as a source for doing theology.
CONTENT
For this course, Lisa Isherwood will be conducting an intensive teaching seminar of 30 hours duration based on the book Introducing Body Theology by Lisa Isherwood & Elizabeth Stuart (see textbook details below). Contents include Why Body Theology? ; Method in Body Theology ; A Difficult Relationship: Christianity and the Body ; The Sacred Body? Women, Spirituality and Embodiment ; Queering the Body: The Body in Lesbian & Gay Theology ; The Body and the World ; Directions in Body Theology .
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