Sacred Body

David Jasper is Professor of Literature and Theology at the University of Glasgow and is Distinguished Overseas Professor of Comparative Literature in the School of Liberal Arts at Renmin University of China.

• AcknowledgementsIllustrationsPreface1. Introduction: A Sunlit Landscape amid the Night of Non-Being2. The Soul as Sacred Space3. The Body, Sacred and Profane4. The Word and the Body5. Asceticism as a Way of Love with a Modern Excursus6. Asceticism Imposed and Recovered: Velasquez, Martha and the Eyes of Faith7. The Eucharistic Body in Literature and Modern Experience: George Herbert and Simone Weil8. Holiness and the Resurrection Body: Meister Eckhart and James Joyce9. Romanticism and the Recovery of the Sacred in Language10. Towards Conclusions: Theological PossibilitiesBibliographyIndex

"A beautiful, even inspired, book that weaves through art, literature, Scripture, and philosophy." --David E. Klemm, Professor of Modern Religious Thought, The University of Iowa