Broken Body

Sarah Coakley, FBA is the Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity emerita, University of Cambridge, and an honorary Professor of St Andrews University and of the Australian Catholic University (Melbourne and Rome). Amongst her previous publications are Powers and Submissions; God, Sexuality and the Self; The New Asceticism; and the Gifford Lectures of 2012, Sacrifice Regained: Evolution, Cooperation and God. She is currently at work on the remaining volumes of her systematic theology.

• Preface ixAcknowledgements xiiPrologue: The Broken Body xvPart 1 Seeking The Identity of Christ 11 On the Identity of the Risen Jesus: In Quest of the ‘Apophatic’ Christ 32 Does Kenōsis Rest on a Mistake? Three Kenotic Models in Patristic Exegesis 263 ‘Mingling’ in Gregory of Nyssa’s Christology: A Reconsideration 474 What Does Chalcedon Solve and What Does It Not? Some Reflections on the Status and Meaning of the Chalcedonian ‘Definition’ 64Part 2 Israel and Christ in Contestation? 875 ‘Broken’ Monotheism? Intra-Divine Complexity and the Origins of the Doctrine of the Trinity 896 On the ‘Fearfulness’ of Forgiveness: Jewish and Christian Perspectives 1127 On Clouds and Veils: Divine Presence and ‘Feminine’ Secrets in Revelation and Nature 1308 In Defence of Sacrifice: Gender, Selfhood and the Binding of Isaac 166Part 3 The Eucharist, Desire and Fragmentation 1939 In Persona Christi: Who, or Where, Is Christ at the Altar? 19510 Sacrifice Re- visited: Blood and Gender 21611 Gift Re- told: Spirals of Grace 23912 Real Presence, Real Absence: The Eucharist and the ‘Apophatic’ Christ 261Index 287

“This is a book well worth feasting upon, and it indeed is a feast readers will find here, so abundant they will be returning for seconds and thirds if I could put it that way.” – Anglican and Episcopal History • Volume 93 • December 2024 • Number 4“Those who teach or write about Coakley will want to read the whole book. Those who find her a source of pleasure or inspiration will want to use the table of contents to read selected essays.” - Modern Theology Month 2025, DOI:10.1111/moth.12976“This is a remarkable set of essays that perform what they argue as stale topics are broken open and given new direction.” – Journal of Anglican Studies, Published online 19 December 2024“Sarah Coakley’s characteristically layered and learned inquiry into Christology uses brokenness as the central thread to stitch together accounts of often disparate doctrinal inquiries: the cross, liturgy, and asceticism.” – The Christian Century, February 2025, Volume 142, Issue #2“In The Broken Body, we have a unique and provocative collection of prolegomena to future theological developments—a significant attempt to essay, to break up and open traditional themes and offer new insights.” - Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology, Issue 43.1, 2025