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`How is the Body of Christ a Meaningful Symbol for the Contemporary Christian Community?'

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This essay attempts to answer the question of how the Body of Christ is a meaningful symbol for the contemporary Christian community from a feminist perspective. Following Graham Ward's account of the displaced body of Jesus Christ, the author argues that the Body of Christ is a distinctly Christian symbol that empowers the contemporary community of Christian believers with a radical new identity, one that is multi-gendered and includes a vast continuum of human and divine embodied experience.

Key Words: body of Christ • Christology • embodiment • gender

Feminist Theology, Vol. 17, No. 2, 210-228 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0966735008098724


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