In good company : the body and divinization in Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ and Daoist Xiao Yingsou / by Bede Benjamin Bidlack
- Author
- Bidlack, Bede Benjamin
- Published
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]
- Copyright Date
- ©2015
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource
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- Series
- Language Note
- English.
- Contents
- Series Editors' Foreword; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Teilhard de Chardin; The Mountain Diagram in the Inner Meaning of the Scripture of Salvation; Structure of the Work; Chapter 1 Trying to Hold Together: Body/Soul Dualism in Christian Anthropology; New Testament Theologies; Paul; The Body in the Gospel of John; Patristic Period; Irenaeus of Lyons; Augustine; Medieval Period: Thomas Aquinas; Enter Aristotelian Metaphysics; The Soul as Actuality; The Body's Effect on the Soul; Modern France; Henri Bergson; Maurice Blondel; Conclusion., Chapter 2 The Body and Divinization in TeilhardPart I: The Appearance of the Human; The Stuff of the Universe; Life Arises; Thought Makes the Human; Christ and Creation; Conclusions about the Body; Part II: Divinization in The Divine Milieu; Divinization of Activities; Divinization of Passivities; Conclusion: The Divine Milieu; Part III: Divinization is Centration; Centration: Microcosmic; Centration: Macrocosmic; The Body Beyond Matter; Chapter 3 Daoist Body and Divinization; Part I: Standard Body Models; The Mystical Body; The Microcosmic Body; The Bureaucratic Body., The Divine Residence BodyPart II: Alchemy; Historical Background; The Alchemical Body; The Road to Immortality: The Alchemical Process; Conclusion; Chapter 4 The Body and Divinization of Xiao Yingsou; Part I: The Text of the Preface; Xiao Yingsou; Numinous Treasure Daoism; Scripture of Salvation; Xiao's Use of Alchemy in the Preface; Part II: Mountains in Chinese Religion and Art; Part III: The Mountain Diagram; Comprehensive Features: The Title; Other Comprehensive Features; The Lower Region; The Middle Region; The Upper Region; Conclusion; Chapter 5 Giving Teilhard His Body., and Part I: The BodyBody as Cosmos; Body as Community; Body Conclusion: Jesus' Resurrection Body; Part II: Divinization; Divinization as Centration; The Use of Mind; Haloing; Divinization Conclusion; Conclusion; Appendix 1 Translation of the Inner Meaning of the Scripture of Salvation; Appendix 2 Analysis of the Mountain Diagram; Glossary of Chinese Terms; Bibliography; Index.
- Summary
- With In Good Company, Bede Benjamin Bidlack derives a theory of the body from the French Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin using his own, first-time translation of the thought of Daoist Xiao Yingsou.
- Subject(s)
- Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre
- Yingsou, Xiao, active 1226
- Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre, 1881-1955
- Human body—Religious aspects—Christianity
- Cosmology
- Philosophical anthropology
- Christianity—Philosophy
- Corps humain—Aspect religieux—Christianisme
- Cosmologie
- Anthropologie philosophique
- Christianisme—Philosophie
- PHILOSOPHY—History & Surveys—Modern
- ISBN
- 9789004288522 (electronic bk.)
900428852X (electronic bk.)
1322984891
9781322984896
9789004288515
9004288511 - Digital File Characteristics
- data file
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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