The Fat Jesus: Christianity and Body Image

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Her work explores the nature of incarnation within a contemporary context and includes such areas as the body, gender, sexuality and eco-theology. My areas of expertise are liberation theologies, feminist theologies, eco-theologies, Psychology of Religion, Mysticism, Queer theory and theology. I have taught all these areas. Scholars believe Jesus was about 5 feet, 5 inches (1.7 meters) tall, which is about the average height for an adult male at the time. [3] Worship is an act of prayer and of physical response. . . . Christianity is all about being uncomfortable.” Wrestling with God: The Yearbook of ESWTR, Co-Editors Jenny Daggers, Elaine Bellchambers, Christina Gasser, Peeters, 2010

The Fat Jesus: Feminist Explorations in Fleshy Christologies

Feminist Theology & the Challenge of Plural Bodies and Plural Languages, European Society of Women in Theological Research, Salamancha, August 2011 Most Jews believe that Jesus Christ was not the Messiah and did not fulfill Messianic prophecy. They also do not believe that Christ was resurrected or divine. [8] As Director of Britain and Ireland School of Feminist Theology, I have organised international bi-annual feminist conferences since 1992. I never became thin, but I did stop caring. Thank God. Literally, I thank God for the liberation from my own craving to be different. Ungovernable teenage hormones behind me, I now could be thin if I did all the stuff (you know, low carbs, no booze, lots of poached fish and circuit training) but I simply don’t care enough to do it. Some of Jesus' critics in the Bible accuse him of drinking too much wine (Matthew Chapter 11, verse 19). [10]

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Every person, no matter their size, struggles with their body,” Lane-McGee says. “It’s universal. It is super Catholic to embrace that.” Not only is there a historical legacy of women being associated with dangerous, seductive appetites, but their desires are perceived to be disruptive to one’s moral or spiritual virtue. By implication, ‘women themselves came to be seen as obstacles in the path to men’s spiritual progress,’ says Dr Lelwica. From Plato to Freud to Jenny Craig, the message has been that bodily urges are shameful, and that they should be suppressed by the higher faculties of the mind or the spirit. The key is control. While severe ascetic practices like fasting are rare today, one need only look around to see how highly regarded the tight, taut control of the body is in the 21 st century. The Indecent Theology of Marcella Althaus Reid, Latin American and Asian Perspectives, ed Lisa Isherwood & Hugo Cordova Quero, Routledge, 2020 The Shroud of Turin is the best-known relic of Jesus and one of the most studied objects in human history. [2] Kahm, a tall, plus-size woman who had a baby last year, finds that the people who seem to be most unaccepting of other people’s bodies are usually the ones who have the biggest issues with their own, even if they are thin. But, she says, “That doesn’t change the pain they can cause.”Osheim adds, “This is something we learn and are going to need to keep learning.” It is a component of synodality, the model of church as walking together and listening to one another, that Pope Francis espouses. James. " Five Things You Didn't Know about Jesus." CNN: Finding Jesus. April 13, 2017. Accessed: June 24, 2019.

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Gender as a Category of Knowledge, Fundamentalism and Gender, Humboldt University, Berlin, December 2010 [unable to attend due to illness but paper sent and read] And in that shared struggle with the vulnerability of embodiment, perhaps a new sense of belonging can take hold. Or as Lane-McGee puts it: “Even the big bodies can be the body ofChrist.”

I’m very suspicious of control as a kind of power to pursue for women,’ says Dr Lelwica. Control works by domination or suppression, and is reminiscent of that hard, upright image of the male God as the ultimate controller, she says. Diets usually work on this model of suppression. The Good News of the Body: Sexual Theology and Feminism[ed], Sheffield Academic Press, 2000 & New York University Press, 2000