Attending to the Wounds on Christ's Body: Teresa's Scriptural Vision - Softcover

Newman, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0227174038 ISBN 13: 9780227174036

Publisher: James Clarke & Co, 2013

Synopsis

The disunity of the church is a social and theological scandal for it betrays the prayer of Jesus that we 'will be one . . . so that the world will believe' (John 17:21). As a Baptist whose academic background focused on the Orthodox Church and whose teaching has included Catholic and Protestant contexts, this division is for Elizabeth Newman personal and professional. Attending to the Wounds on Christ’s Body rests on the conviction that the broad tradition of Christianity already contains resources to heal the church, namely the saints of the church. Newman examines especially how Teresa of Avila (1515-1582) speaks to the whole church today in the midst of political, economic, and ecclesial brokenness. Teresa’s reliance upon three scriptural figures -- dwellings, marriage, and pilgrimage-- helps make sense of an ecclesial way of life that is inherently unitive, a unity that stands in contrast to that of the nation-state or the global market. Teresa’s scriptural journey offers an alternative at once liturgical, political, and economic. This Doctor of the Church provides "medicine" that can repair wounds of division that separate brothers and sisters in Christ.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 How to Read Teresa after Modernity
2 The Politics of Teresa’s Dwellings
3 Divine Marriage and an Economics of Abundance
4 On Pilgrimage: a Unity both Visible and Hidden
5 Teresa as a Saint for Unity
6 Ecclesial Practices as Dwelling Places
Bibliography
Subject Index
Scripture Index

About this title

About the Author:

Elizabeth Newman is Professor of Theology and Ethics at the Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond. She is the author of 'Untamed Hospitality: Welcoming God and Other Strangers'(2007).

Review:

Attending to the Wounds on Christ's Body: Teresa's Scriptural Vision, explores how the saint, declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope Paul VI, can help to build up the Church today across divisions and towards a greater understanding of the Body of Christ as a unified whole.
(22nd January 2016)

...the vision of politics, economics and church unity presented here has much to commend it...it is welcome to see Newman’s clear demonstration of how Teresa draws deep on Scripture to provide a prayerful vision of life with Christ... (Sam Hole, Westcott House Reviews in Religion and Theology, Vol 21, Issue 2, (March, 2014))

About this edition

• Publisher: James Clarke & Co
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0227174038
• ISBN 13: 9780227174036
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 230