TY - GEN T1 - Material mystery : the flesh of the world in three mythic bodies A1 - MacKendrick, Karmen, 1962- LA - English PP - New York PB - Fordham University Press YR - 2021 ED - First edition. UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1257761726 AB - This book considers three apparently anthropocentric myths that are central to Abrahamic religions - those of the primal human, the incarnated and possibly divine redeemer, and the resurrected body. At first glance, these stories reinforce a human-centered theology and point to a very anthropomorphic God. Taking them seriously seems to ignore the material turn in the humanities entirely, with the same sort of willful ignorance that some of our politicians show in declaring that their myths count as facts, or that the point of the rest of the world is to further human consumption. But it is possible, the author shows, to read these figures through a particular tradition that emerges from the Hebrew Bible, the tradition of Wisdom as a creative force. Wisdom texts are common across the ancient Near East. As the idea of creative Wisdom develops from antiquity into the middle ages, it gathers philosophical influences from a range of philosophical traditions. This exuberantly promiscuous impurity - intellectual, artistic, and theological - generates new interpretive possibilities. In these interpretations, each human-like figure opens up onto the world's matter, as an interdependent part of it, and matter is thoroughly mixed with divinity. Such mythic readings complement our factual, scientific understanding of the material world, to engage wider kinds of knowing and affective attention - particularly Wisdom's combination of care and delight. -- OP - 216 CN - BL215 .M33 2021 SN - 9780823294572 SN - 0823294579 SN - 9780823294565 SN - 0823294560 SN - 9780823294541 SN - 9780823294558 KW - Anthropomorphism. KW - Abrahamic religions. KW - Resurrection. KW - Incarnation. KW - God : Corporeality. KW - Anthropomorphisme. KW - Religions abrahamiques. KW - Résurrection. KW - Dieu : Corporéité. KW - anthropomorphism. KW - RELIGION : Christian Theology : History. KW - Abrahamic religions KW - Anthropomorphism KW - God : Corporeality KW - Incarnation KW - Resurrection KW - Electronic books. ER -