Tag Archives: Carolyn Walker Bynum

Bynum-death and longing toward Easter

Posted on March 31, 2012 by theoutwardquest

A week from today is Holy Saturday, the day between Good Friday and Easter Sunday, the day when Jesus lay in the tomb. Before we get to the joyous he-is-risen of Sunday morning, we go through the time of affirming … Continue reading →

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Bynum-Dante, fertility, and desire

Posted on March 28, 2012 by theoutwardquest

Carolyn Walker Bynum in The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336 uses Dante (1265-1321), the Italian poet, to show where the idea of the body had gotten by the 14th century.  Dante wrote the Inferno, a guided tour … Continue reading →

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Bynum-out-of-body experience

Posted on March 23, 2012 by theoutwardquest

For today’s post on Carolyn Walker Bynum’s The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336, I need to mention three ideas from popular Catholic eschatology from about 1200 on. First, there was Purgatory. After you died you existed as a … Continue reading →

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Bynum-from tripe chapels to Thomas Aquinas

Posted on March 21, 2012 by theoutwardquest

As we approach Easter, I continue to read and react to Carolyn Walker Bynum’s The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336. Her book is not a biblical study but a study of the history of thought about a biblical … Continue reading →

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Bynum-Resurrection and the senses

Posted on March 16, 2012 by theoutwardquest

Now back to Carolyn Bynum’s discussion of the history of thought about the resurrection of the body. She moves from the years around 400 C.E. to the century before and after 1200. She skips over the intervening centuries. Apparently thought … Continue reading →

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Bynum-the resurrection and gender

Posted on March 13, 2012 by theoutwardquest

I am reporting on and interacting with Carolyn Walker Bynum’s The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336. She brings out two practices of the church that motivated thought about the resurrection of the body up to 400 C.E. … Continue reading →

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Bynum-Resurrection as reassembly

Posted on March 9, 2012 by theoutwardquest

As Easter approaches I am blogging about Carolyn Walker Bynum’s book on the resurrection of the body. She reads ancient writers to find out how the church long ago began to understand the body. A few years ago I was … Continue reading →

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Bynum-Easter and the human body

Posted on March 8, 2012 by theoutwardquest

One of the key messages of Christianity has to do with death and hope. But popular notions of this seem to stand at some distance from Paul and the gist of the New Testament. The idea of our souls going … Continue reading →

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