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RESURRECTING PARTS
During the late second and early third centuries C.E. 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.
Resurrecting Parts
is the
first
study to examine the place of gender and
sexuality in early Christian debates on the nature of resurrection, investigating
how the resurrected body has been interpreted by writers of this period in
order to address the nature of sexuality and sexual difference. In particular,
Petrey considers the instability of early Christian attempts to separate maleness
and femaleness. Bodily parts commonly signified sexual difference, yet it was
widely thought that future resurrected bodies would not experience desire or
reproduction. In the absence of sexuality, this insistence on difference became
difficult to maintain. To achieve a common, shared identity and status for
the resurrected body that nevertheless preserved sexual difference, treatises on
the resurrection found it necessary to explain how and in what way these parts
would be transformed in the resurrection, shedding all associations with
sexual desires, acts, and reproduction.
Exploring a range of early Christian sources, from the Greek and Latin
fathers to the authors of the Nag Hammadi writings,
Resurrecting Parts
is a
fascinating resource for scholars interested in gender and sexuality in classical
antiquity, early Christianity, asceticism, and, of course, the resurrection and
the body.
Taylor G. Petrey
is the Lucinda Hinsdale Stone Assistant Professor of Religion
and the Director of the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Program at Kalamazoo
College, USA.
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RESURRECTING
PARTS
Early Christians on Desire, Reproduction,
and Sexual Difference
Taylor G. Petrey
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Petrey, Taylor G.
Resurrecting parts : early Christians on desire, reproduction, and sexual
difference / Taylor G. Petrey.
pages cm
Includes index.
1. Resurrection--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600. 2. Human
body--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600.
3. Sex--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600.
I. Title.
BT873.P48 2015
236’.8--dc23
2015000971
ISBN: 978-1-138-90653-2 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-69544-0 (ebk)
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by Taylor & Francis Books

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