- Title
- Imagining the body of Christ
- Creator
- Petterson, Christina
- Relation
- Sexuality, Ideology and the Bible: Antipodean Engagements p. 35-55
- Relation
- http://www.sheffieldphoenix.com/showbook.asp?bkid=317
- Publisher
- Sheffield Phoenix Press
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- In the mid eighteenth century, the community of the Moravian Brethren in Germany celebrated a Christ who bore on his body the male and female genitalia: the penis and the side-wound (Jn 19.34).1 This enabled the leader of the community, Count Zinzendorf, to argue that the body of Christ represented the whole community. The idea of the body of Christ as representing the community is a well-known trope from some of the New Testament texts, such as the letter to the Romans, 1 Corinthians, Ephesians and Colossians. However, what Zinzendorf was producing was a collective image of the community as a body distinct from Christ. The present chapter will use this shift in the production of a collective body in order to analyse the different understandings of body and collectivity, and to contextualise the differences. After my methodological presuppositions are canvassed, I move on to an analysis of the Choir-speeches of Zinzendorf, a genre of speeches which address the Moravian community in groups according to gender and marital status, the so-called Choirs. Following this, I turn to 1 Corinthians, and the collective body of Christ.
- Subject
- body of Christ; community; New Testament; Count Zinzendorf
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1335625
- Identifier
- uon:27462
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781909697836
- Language
- eng
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