The Fat Jesus: Christianity and Body Image

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She has wide experience in programme leadership, postgraduate supervision and departmental administration. She has research partnerships with colleagues in the USA and Latin America. I hope so. Better that way round. A child should take its parents’ admiration for granted. Better to go into the world with too high an expectation of love than too low. The first person you encounter who makes you feel unattractive, annoying or stupid should not be the first person you encounter at all. That feeling should come as a surprise, not a confirmation. You should have a decent chance of understanding, by the time someone audibly criticises you, that opinion is subjective.

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The Indecent Theology of Marcella Althaus Reid, Latin American and Asian Perspectives, ed Lisa Isherwood & Hugo Cordova Quero, Routledge, 2020 Gifts Under Gunfire: A Feminist Use of Scripture in Theologians on Scripture, ed Angus Paddison, T&T Clark, 2016 Introducing Feminist Theology, Co-author Dorothea McEwan [Warburg Institute], Sheffield Academic Press; 1993; 2nd Edition, 2001 A Burning Fire in My Bones. Queer Ministers' Voices from the Global South eds Lisa Isherwood & Hugo Cordova Quero, London, Routledge, 2023.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.

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Even Jesus needed "alone time." The Gospels frequently mention that Jesus needed to withdraw from the crowds. One cave where he spent some time is called the Eremos Cave, from which the word "desolate" and "hermit" derive. [4] As Director of the Institute of Theological Partnerships at University of Winchester I organised 3-5 conferences a year. Controversies in Feminist Theologies, Co-Author Marcella Althaus-Reid [University of Edinburgh], SCM, Press 2007 Some people think that “home truths” are part of love, and that pointing out weight gain is a sort of kindly, helpful intervention. It isn’t. People who are fat know they’re fat. They aren’t sitting there waiting for your divine pronouncement. You can only hurt them.Muslims believe Christ was a prophet and a messenger of God • In Islam, Jesus, or Isa, is considered an important prophet and a Messiah. Islam also holds that Jesus was born of a virgin, but that he was not the Son of God. Most Muslims believe that God brought Jesus to heaven and that he wasn't actually crucified. [8] Scholars note that there were two solar eclipses around the time of Jesus' death: one in 29 AD, and one in 33 AD. The Christian Gospels state that the skies darkened after the crucifixion, which suggests that his death coincided with one of these eclipses. [6] Visteme como Madre, llamame Padre: la necesaria invisibilidad de la Mujer dentro de la Iglesia, Iglesia Viva, Spain, 2012 The Fat Jesus is the easier of the two to read. The author’s intention is to show how Christian views of God, and attitudes to food, eating, and fatness have contributed to destructive practices in the social control of women’s bodies, and in harmful dieting. She does this in a readable way, with reference to popular culture, to Christian history, and to both theory and practice.

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Zoë Bennett is Director of Post-graduate Studies in Pastoral Theology in the Cambridge Theological Federation and Anglia Ruskin University. The Sanhedrin arrested and tried Jesus Christ. Pontius Pilate sentenced him to be scourged and crucified. [9]Forging Voices: Exploring gender, race & theology through conversations with pioneering feminist & womanist scholars in religion. [One of the 11 women included.] Director Kate Common- U Tube 2018/2020 Christianity: Queer Pasts, Queer Futures, Revista Horizonte, Journal of the Pontifical Catholic University, Brazil, 2015 During the time of Christ, most Jews used only one name, which could be followed either by the phrase "son of . . . " or the person's hometown, which is why Jesus is often referred to as Jesus of Nazereth. [3]

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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. Lesbian Theologies In The Oxford Handbook of Theology, Sexuality and Gender, ed Adrian Thatcher, Oxford University Press, 2014 Some scholars note that Jesus did not want to die. In the Garden of Gethsemane, he says, "Remove this cup from me" and, "My soul is sorrowful even unto death." [4]

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