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Promised Bodies: Time, Language, and Corporeality in Medieval Women's Mystical Texts
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“Because the human being is both like and unlike God, made in God’s image
but unlike God in its mode of dwelling in time and in space, Augustine is faced with the question of how to reconcile the body’s existence in a temporal and changeable medium with the unchangeable and eternal nature of its creator. It is only through loving and understanding what Augustine calls Christ’s “back,” that is, his being as flesh, comprehending Christ’s death in the flesh, and imagining what his front points to that one may be united as a member of Christ in the symbolic body of the Church. One has to desire and love that which one cannot see fully.”
― Promised Bodies: Time, Language, and Corporeality in Medieval Women's Mystical Texts
but unlike God in its mode of dwelling in time and in space, Augustine is faced with the question of how to reconcile the body’s existence in a temporal and changeable medium with the unchangeable and eternal nature of its creator. It is only through loving and understanding what Augustine calls Christ’s “back,” that is, his being as flesh, comprehending Christ’s death in the flesh, and imagining what his front points to that one may be united as a member of Christ in the symbolic body of the Church. One has to desire and love that which one cannot see fully.”
― Promised Bodies: Time, Language, and Corporeality in Medieval Women's Mystical Texts
