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Mayra Rivera is Associate Professor of Theology and Latina/o Studies at Harvard University and the author of The Touch of Transcendence: A Postcolonial Theology of God.
Mayra Rivera is Associate Professor of Theology and Latina/o Studies at Harvard University and the author of The Touch of Transcendence: A Postcolonial Theology of God.
Acknowledgments vii Introduction. Both Flesh and Not 1 Part I: Regarding Christian Bodies 15 1. Becoming Flesh: The Gospel of John 19 2. Abandoning Flesh: The Letters of Paul 29 3. Embracing Flesh: Tertullian 43 Part II: The Philosophers' (Christian) Flesh 55 4. Incarnate Philosophy 59 5. The Ends of Flesh 87 Part III: A Labyrinth of Incarnations 111 6. Inescapable Bodies 117 7. Carnal Relations 133 Conclusion 153 Notes 159 Bibliography 193 Index 203