I. The Gift-of-the-Body Genre

2006 ◽  
pp. 26-51
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
The Gift

scholarly journals PERSPEKTIF RASUL PAULUS TENTANG BERBAHASA ROH BERDSARKAN 1 KORINTUS 14

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-21
Author(s):  
Sarwono Sarwono
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
1 Corinthians ◽  
Speaking In Tongues ◽  
The Gift ◽  
The Church

The gift of speaking in tongues is a message to the body of Christ which is given in tongues and is not understood by the user. Therefore, it must be followed by an interpretation by the language understood by the congregation. The gift of tongues is usually news of a prophecy for the Lord's church and must be followed by an interpretation. If the gift of tongues is not followed by an interpretation, it cannot build up the church. Therefore, the author will discuss the apostle Paul's perspective on tongues based on 1 Corinthians 14.

scholarly journals “The genealogy of the person is inscribed in the very biology of generation”. Towards the heart of the dispute on Humanae vitae

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2(24)) ◽  
pp. 29-43
Author(s):  
Paweł Bortkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Human Person ◽  
Human Action ◽  
The Body ◽  
Pope John Paul Ii ◽  
Conjugal Love ◽  
John Paul Ii ◽  
Humanae Vitae ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Theological Vision

Since the publication of the encyclical "Humanae vitae" by Paul VI in 1968, a heated discussion has been taking place around this document. It comes alive in a particularly intense way on the occasion of the subsequent anniversaries of the publication of the document. Subsequent decades showed a number of problems related not only to the ethics of marital life and sexual ethics, but also to the concept of conscience or recognition or rejection of the seriousness of the Church's Magisterium. Recent months have brought further opinions of antagonists and protagonists of this document.Among opponents or critics of the encyclical, there are views questioning the teaching that contraception is intrinsically evil. This, in consequence, means accepting the thesis that there are no intrinsically evil acts at all. What is more, it should be noted that every human action is determined in its moral nature only by the proportion between its good and bad effects.In confrontation with these views, the article presents an outline of the anthropological and theological truth underlying "Humanae vitae" which was analysed with insight by St. John Paul II. This allows for the extraction of several basic theses relating to the theological vision of marriage and parenthood: 1) to read the truth about marriage and parenthood, it is necessary to fully recognize the truth about the dignity of the human person, 2) the person realizes fully in the reality of the gift that creates interpersonal communion with the participation of the human body, 3) communion and endowment made with the help of the "sign" of the body are realized in interpersonal conjugal love, 4) the special (though not the only) act of conjugal love is a sexual act, 5) marital logic of being a mutual gift is specific and this is inseparability of the bond between the inter-marital gift (between spouses) and the non-marital gift (between parents and children). Ultimately, this leads to the thought of St. Pope John Paul II, ordering to combine the order of the marriage act with the creative act "the genealogy of the person is inscribed in the very biology of generation".

The Tablet-woven Braids from the Vestments of St. Cuthbert at Durham

1939 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grace M. Crowfoot
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Alfred The Great ◽  
The Gift ◽  
The Subject

The braids which form the subject of this study were found with a stole and maniple on the body of St. Cuthbert when the tomb was opened in 1827. The vestments are embroidered in coloured silks and gold thread: the stole with figures of prophets, and the maniple with those of saints. Both have an inscription embroidered on the ends, with the names of the donor, Ælflæda, and the ‘pious Bishop Fridestan’ for whom they were worked. Fridestan became the Bishop of Winchester in A.D. 905 and Ælflæda, second wife of Edward the Elder, son of Alfred the Great, died in A.D. 916, so that the gift must have been made between these dates. It is further probable that this stole and maniple are identical with those recorded as having been presented to the shrine of St. Cuthbert (then at Chester-le-Street) by King Athelstan, stepson of Queen Ælflæda, in A.D. 934. Fridestan had died in 931, and this circumstance, together with the close connexion of the king's family with Winchester, supports the story.

Boundaries of Art in Nabokov's The Gift: Reading as Transcendence

Slavic Review ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 600-625
Author(s):  
Stephen H. Blackwell
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Central Question ◽  
Restricted Movement ◽  
Treaty Of Versailles ◽  
Russian Novel ◽  
The World ◽  
The Gift ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Given

The author's actual creative act always proceeds along the boundaries of the aesthetic world, along the boundaries of the reality of the given, along the boundary of the body and the boundary of the spirit.—M. M. BakhtinThe spirit finds loopholes, transluscences in the world's finest texture.—V. V. Nabokov, "How I Love You"Are boundaries real? This, to a certain extent, is the central question posed by The Gift when Fyodor suggests that "definitions are always finite, but I keep straining for the faraway; I search beyond the barricades (of words, of senses, of the world) for infinity, where all, all the lines meet." Written in one of the most border-conscious eras of history (the Treaty of Versailles had just created nine new independent countries and changed the boundaries of many others), Vladimir Nabokov's last complete Russian novel addresses head-on the most pressing issues he and his fellow emigres faced. Cast beyond the edge of their homeland, the exiles were forced to accept unnaturally restricted movement within Europe as well, due to their lack of a valid nationality. So one might say that for Russian exiles of the 1920s and 1930s, boundaries constituted the single most unrelenting feature of reality.

Gift of the Body in Islam: The Prophet Muhammad's Camel Sacrifice and Distribution of Hair and Nails at his Farewell Pilgrimage

Numen ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 57 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 341-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brannon Wheeler
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Islamic Civilization ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
New Social Order

AbstractThe following pages examine the relationship between the prophet Muhammad's sacrifice of the camels and the distribution of his hair at the conclusion of his farewell pilgrimage just before his death. A study of the accounts of the Prophet's camel sacrifice shows that it prefigures the annual rites of the Hajj using the biblical model of Abraham's sacrifice to align other pre-Islamic practices, including those associated with the cult at Mecca, with the origins of a specifically Islamic civilization. The prophet Muhammad's distribution of his hair, detached from his body at the time of his desacralization from the Hajj delineates the Meccan sanctuary as the place of origination from which was spread both the physical and textual corpus of the Prophet's life. Whether by design or not, the traditional Islamic descriptions of this episode from the life of the prophet Muhammad are not unlike narratives found in Buddhist, Iranian, Christian and other traditions in which the body of a primal being is dismembered to create a new social order. Through the gift of the sacrificial camels and parts of his own body, the prophet Muhammad is portrayed, in this episode, as making a figurative and literal offering of himself at the origins of Islamic civilization.

Megjegyzések a nemiség drámáját illetően (2.)

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-318
Author(s):  
Mátyás Szalay
Keyword(s):  
Free Choice ◽  
The Body ◽  
Personal Relationship ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Commodity Fetishism ◽  
The Real ◽  
Human Community ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Human Desire

Our personal relationship with the body might rightly be characterized as dramatic. This implies the free choice between two radically different fundamental attitudes towards bodily existence. The consequences of this or that fundamental disposition are articulated in all spheres of life: religious, social, political, and cultural. Our contemporary society with its commodity fetishism and disregard not only towards being but even existence tries to avoid the real drama in which happiness as a divine- human community is at stake. Yet our bodily existence with its limitations unavoidably confronts us with personal and existential questions on how we deal with the tension between temporality and eternity, the visible and invisible realm of reality, the fundamental human desire to become more than human. When encountering the mystery that we remain for ourselves as humans, our response entails a choice either to reject the reality of bodily existence by enhancing it (transhumanism), or, on the contrary to acknowledge the gift character of the body (theosis).

Memorialising and Forgetting: Corporeal Generosity and the Gift of the Intersexed Other

Somatechnics ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 272-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Robyn Cadwallader
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Dimorphism ◽  
Surgical Intervention ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Political ◽  
Sexually Dimorphic ◽  
Corrective Surgery ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Technological Intervention

‘Modifying bodies’ evokes two different kinds of bodies, too often thought of as separate: those bodies which are modified, and those which call for and enact the modification. This paper seeks to explore the ethical and political significance of the modification of ‘intersexed’ bodies, using Rosalyn Diprose's concept of ‘corporeal generosity’. It argues that the visceral reaction to the bodies of those not recognised within the regimes of sexual dimorphism is shaped by perceptual practices formed through the political memorialising of the generosity of particular, privileged others, and the forgetting of the generosity of othered others. These patterns of memorialising and forgetting also shape the call for surgical intervention, such as ‘corrective’ surgery, performed on the body of the intersexed child, become the means for memorialising the gifts of the sexually dimorphic, and forgetting the gifts of those deemed ‘ambiguous’. This approach enables the ethical and political significance of this technological intervention to be understood as of a piece with larger somatechnics, shared, challenged and perpetuated through corporeal generosity.

scholarly journals Canceral Imaginaries

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 129-155
Author(s):  
Donna McCormack
Keyword(s):  
Organ Donation ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
The Body ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Short Supply ◽  
Bodily Movement ◽  
Life Saving ◽  
The Gift ◽  
History Of

This article examines the carceral imaginaries that emerge from the late capitalist structure of organ donation as an issue of short supply. This piece explores this issue through the lens of spatial segregation, arguing that carceral imaginaries are spaces of luxury where donors are segregated from recipients and are thereby legally murdered. The focus is Ninni Holmqvist’s novel The Unit (2008) where the future is structured through gender equality but reproductive normativity. Donors are segregated away in the luxurious unit because they have not repro- duced. Having not produced future generations of labourers, these donors must contribute to the nation by donating their body parts to the reproductive – and therefore productive – members of the nation. Focusing on Sweden’s history of eugenics and on gender equality, this article argues that the very space of care, namely the clinic, which facilitates life-saving treatments also subjects whole populations to violence and death through reproductive norms. Finally, it sug- gests that space is both that through which bodies move, but also the body itself. That is, the segregation of the body’s parts and the idea that space may be divided by borders are mutually constitutive and found both the restrictions of bodily movement through space and murder as the gift of life.

scholarly journals The gift and the threat: an artistic exploration into the machine's threat against the flesh body

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurie Petrou
Keyword(s):  
Academic Work ◽  
The Body ◽  
Art Making ◽  
Still Image ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Machine Aesthetics ◽  
Industrial Strength ◽  
Body Ideals

This paper acts as a support for the two projects I have submitted: Industrial Strength and The Gift The Threat. The projects and the paper examine ideas of the threat of the metallized body on the flesh body. Aesthetics and texts vitalized ideas that were explored through the videos, and the videos themselves represent an artistic discovery and a contribution to aesthetics, history and philosophy - as well as a springboard for a larger body of work. My research involved analysis of the fascists and the Futurists and their use of the machine and machine-body ideals, the cult of the engineer, rhetorical applications of the Mechtech machine as determined by Barry Brummett as well as examination into texts and imagery involving the body, dance, military aesthetics and finally, much personal discovery. The process of making the two videos revealed my own position on the topic of the body - filming my own body in relation to texts and imagery analyzed, I was forced to answer questions of how I felt about the body, technology, spirituality and art making, all within an academic and artistic context. The footage and soundtrack in both videos are original (save for one still image) and were composed using a process that I explore at length in the paper: spiritual and highly personal, the process divulges much about the artist, and likewise, I hope that the reading of the projects offers discovery for the viewer in the form of personal questions of the body and the machine. The possibility for further artistic and academic work on the ideas examined in these projects is exciting: my focus was solely on the Mechtech machine (gears and pistons, and what we would know as factory machinery), fascism and the body, but there are many ideas one could expand upon, including a study in gender and machine aesthetics; contemporary machines and the body; and the body and mechanical/flesh motion. My hope is that these projects inspire questions, ideas and further pursuits based on the topics explored within the works and paper.

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