Theology of the body - book recommendations for beginner

[u/Old-Lengthiness5891]

Hello , am looking for some recommendations for books or articles on the topic of the theology of the body . Am a beginner but am really intrested and want to learn more , i saw christopher west's collection of books written on this, but i dont know which ones to pick to start with, any advice will be great, cheers.

[u/OutsideSubject3261]

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This is a book on a brief theology of periods; the secondary title says an adventure for the curious into bodies, womanhood, time, pain and purpose. I hope this helps.

[u/themsc190]

I took Theologies of the Body a couple semesters ago, and while the course I took was more interreligious, the texts relating to Christianity we read were Caroline Walker Bynum’s The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200–1336 and Jennifer Knust’s Unprotected Texts: The Bible’s Surprising Contradictions About Sex and Desire.

Any theology of the body should also engage disability theology, one of the most influential texts being Nancy Eiesland’s The Disabled God: Towards a Liberatory Theology of Disability A good article that connects her work to thinking about the body is this one.

I also think any theology of the body should engage the racial construction of the body; see for example, Kelly Brown Douglas’s Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God.

And of course, queer theology takes seriously embodiment in the context of theology, in all its diverse forms, including trans and intersex and otherwise diverse sexual bodies. One key image in queer theology is Althaus-Reid’s commentary on the poor Argentinian lemon vendors doing theology without underwear (found in her Indecent Theology). Commenting on this image, Mark Jordan says to actually try theologizing in the nude! How would it affect our theologizing about the body if we actually had to confront our bodies, without pretense, without artifice, just there as bodies?

[u/delveradu]

The works of David Bentley Hart. The Doors of the Sea, The Experience of God, The Hidden and the Manifest, You Are Gods.