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Postcolonial Discipleship of Embodiment

An Asian and Asian American Feminist Reading of the Gospel of Mark

  • Hardback
  • 224 pages
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
  • 14 x 21.6 x 1.5 cm

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In the Gospel of Mark, Jesus asks the disciples, 'Do you not yet understand?' Rereading the Gospel through an Asian and Asian American feminist hermeneutics, Choi interprets this 'understanding' as phronesis (embodied wisdom) rather than knowledge of Jesus' identity. Discipleship means embodying the mystery. Amidst the Roman imperial construction of the colonized body, colonial subjects perceive, or are haunted by, Jesus' body as phantasmic (6:45-52), consumed (7:24-30), and passive (7:31-37). The mystery of Jesus' transcorporeal body disrupts the imperial presence, while conveying the subjectivity of othered bodies that are invisible, placeless, and voiceless in both ancient and contemporary postcolonial contexts. This postcolonial feminist rereading of Mark calls for an ethical relation with the single figure of the crucified for continued life-giving and meaning-making.

  • Title

    Postcolonial Discipleship of Embodiment

  • Author

    Jin-Young Choi

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Palgrave Macmillan

  • Published

    August 2015

  • Edition

    2015 ed.

  • Weight

    418g

  • Page Count

    224

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 1.5 cm

  • ISBN

    9781137541543

  • ISBN-10

    1137541547

  • Eden Code

    4326533

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