The Fat Jesus: Christianity and Body Image

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Osheim adds, “This is something we learn and are going to need to keep learning.” It is a component of synodality, the model of church as walking together and listening to one another, that Pope Francis espouses. Gender as a Category of Knowledge, Fundamentalism and Gender, Humboldt University, Berlin, December 2010 [unable to attend due to illness but paper sent and read] Before Jesus died, he said, "I am thirsty." In response, he was offered wine mixed with myrrh or gall to drink. He refused it. [9] There’s not really the option to be cruel to your body, because the body has forever been elevated to something different from everything else in the world because of the incarnation,” says Catholic author Simcha Fisher. “Christ took on a human body. That’s why you can’t dismiss the notion of being compassionate to the human body.” As Director of the Institute of Theological Partnerships at University of Winchester I organised 3-5 conferences a year.Not only is there a historical legacy of women being associated with dangerous, seductive appetites, but their desires are perceived to be disruptive to one’s moral or spiritual virtue. By implication, ‘women themselves came to be seen as obstacles in the path to men’s spiritual progress,’ says Dr Lelwica. From Plato to Freud to Jenny Craig, the message has been that bodily urges are shameful, and that they should be suppressed by the higher faculties of the mind or the spirit. The key is control. While severe ascetic practices like fasting are rare today, one need only look around to see how highly regarded the tight, taut control of the body is in the 21 st century.

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An A-Z of Feminist Theology, Co-editor Dorothea McEwan [Warburg Institute], Sheffield Academic Press: 1996. Bloomsbury Academic Collections, 2015 Why can’t we see Jesus in that body?” she asks. After all, Jesus was a man of color who died an unjust, shameful, and public death at the hands of the state. But rather than citing this connection, Oakes cites the attitude of commentators who said that Floyd would have died anyway because of his weight, an example that manages to blend racism, fatphobia, and ableism. The Sanhedrin arrested and tried Jesus Christ. Pontius Pilate sentenced him to be scourged and crucified. [9] Because the Romans felt like it was too gruesome to crucify someone in town, they made people carry their own cross to the outskirts of town, which, in Christ's case, was to Golgotha. [7]in Buenos Aires, Conexion Queer: Revista Latinoamericana y Caribena de Teologias Queer, Vol 4: 2021, pp. 95-115. Beginning with the Virgin Mary, the restrained, virtuous woman is a recurrent theme in Christianity. Some, like Saint Catherine of Siena who starved to death in 1380, are referred to as ‘holy anorexics’. They refused all food except the holy host. However, Margaret R. Miles, professor emerita at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California says we notice the female medieval saints’ harsh asceticism because these accounts are ‘titillating’. She says men were rarely written about in this way by hagiographers, making it a highly gendered practice. Wrestling with God: The Yearbook of ESWTR, Co-Editors Jenny Daggers, Elaine Bellchambers, Christina Gasser, Peeters, 2010 Jesus beats the devil in a pro wrestling match Jesus on the top rope in the T pose ready to slam Satan Artist signed print