Let the Bones Dance

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ISBN: 9780664234126 | 0664234127
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 9/2/2010

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Contemporary Christian faith and practice tend to address spiritual, mental, and emotional issues but ignore the body. As a result, many believers are uncomfortable in their own skins. Shoop addresses this "dis-ease" with a theology that is attentive to physical experience. She also suggests how worship services can more fully invite God to inhabit every part of who we are'”including our flesh and blood bodies. For when individual Christian bodies are allowed to flourish, so will the unified body of Christ.

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Foreword	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
The Protestant Problem	p. 2
Addressing the Problem/Embodying Theology	p. 5
Stretching into a Theology of Embodiment	p. 7
Feeling Our Way	p. 11
A Brief Mapping of Feeling	p. 12
Understanding Feeling	p. 14
Feeling as Mode of Experience	p. 17
Feeling as the Means of Redemption of Bodies	p. 20
Constructions of Subjectivity	p. 21
The Dynamic of Simple Physical Feeling	p. 23
The Decentering of Consciousness	p. 24
Feeling Bodies
Prologue to Part I: "Can I Get a Witness?"	p. 29
Feeling Tragic Bodies: Narratives in the Flesh	p. 35
Stories Told, Untold, Retold, Untellable	p. 36
What We Know about Rape	p. 40
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder	p. 42
Rape Trauma Syndrome	p. 43
Trauma Theory	p. 44
Rape and Feeling	p. 47
The Limits of Consciousness	p. 48
Body Loss	p. 52
Body Function	p. 54
Contorted Subjectivity	p. 56
Feeling Bodies/Tragic Bodies	p. 62
Tragedy	p. 62
Feeling Relational Bodies: Cellular Poetics	p. 65
Introduction	p. 66
Pregnancy: Prose and Poiesis	p. 68
Pregnancy's Promise and Problematic: Relationship and Rupture	p. 72
Creativity and Creation	p. 74
The Placental Model	p. 75
Rupture and Creation	p. 76
Entangled Subjectivity	p. 78
The Midwife Model	p. 80
Rupture and Subjectivity	p. 82
Body Knowledge/Body Function	p. 83
The Birth Model	p. 84
Rupture and the Body's Wisdom	p. 86
Feeling Bodies/Relational Bodies Relationality	p. 89
Feeling Ambiguous Bodies: Manifesting Metaphors	p. 93
Introduction	p. 94
Muddling Through: Motherhood as Metaphor	p. 99
Metaphors	p. 101
Motherhood as Metaphor	p. 101
Motherhood and Feeling	p. 105
Maternal Bodies	p. 107
Multiple Mothers	p. 110
Fragmented Subjectivity	p. 113
Feeling Bodies/Ambiguous Bodies	p. 117
Ambiguity	p. 117
The (EM) Body(MENT) of Christ
Prologue to Part II: Dance Then	p. 123
Embodying Redemption	p. 127
Theological Body Language	p. 128
The Body and Disposition	p. 129
Dispositions of Redeemed Bodies	p. 131
Dispositions of Compassion: Embodying Tragedy	p. 131
Dispositions of Interdependence: Embodying Relationality	p. 135
Dispositions of Adventure: Embodying Ambiguity	p. 137
In-forming the Body of Christ	p. 141
Introduction	p. 142
Holy Habits	p. 143
Sacred Wounds	p. 148
Triage for the Church	p. 150
The Wound of Intellectualization	p. 151
In-forming Mystery	p. 153
The Wound of Fear	p. 156
In-forming Surrender	p. 159
In-formation	p. 160
Re-membering the Body of Christ	p. 161
Introduction	p. 162
Re-membering the Body of Christ	p. 162
God's-Eye View	p. 163
Who Do We Say That We Are?	p. 164
Re-membering Worship	p. 165
Tragedy, Compassion, and Confession	p. 165
Relationality, Interdependence, and Eucharist	p. 167
Ambiguity, Adventure, and Music	p. 170
"May We Kindle to Thy Dancing"	p. 173
Selected Bibliography	p. 177
Index	p. 183
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