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God's Gym: Divine Male Bodies of the Bible

Stephen D. Moore

4.2/5 ( ratings)

In this strikingly original work, Stephen Moore considers God's male bodies--the body of Yahweh in the Hebrew Bible, and the Father of Jesus Christ, and Jesus himself in the New Testament--and our obsessive earthly quest for a perfect human form. God's Gym is about divinity, physical pain, and the visions of male perfectability.

Weaving together his obsession with human anatomy and dissection, an interest in the technologies of torture, the cult of physical culture, and an expert knowledge of biblical criticism, Moore explains the male narcissism at the heart of the biblical God. God's Gym is an intensely personal book, brimming with our culture's phobias and fascinations about male perfectability.

Language: English

Pages: 204

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Routledge

Release: October 02, 1996

ISBN: 0415917573

ISBN 13: 9780415917575

God's Gym: Divine Male Bodies of the Bible

Stephen D. Moore

4.2/5 ( ratings)

In this strikingly original work, Stephen Moore considers God's male bodies--the body of Yahweh in the Hebrew Bible, and the Father of Jesus Christ, and Jesus himself in the New Testament--and our obsessive earthly quest for a perfect human form. God's Gym is about divinity, physical pain, and the visions of male perfectability.

Weaving together his obsession with human anatomy and dissection, an interest in the technologies of torture, the cult of physical culture, and an expert knowledge of biblical criticism, Moore explains the male narcissism at the heart of the biblical God. God's Gym is an intensely personal book, brimming with our culture's phobias and fascinations about male perfectability.

Language: English

Pages: 204

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Routledge

Release: October 02, 1996

ISBN: 0415917573

ISBN 13: 9780415917575

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