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12 - Jesus in the Story of Spirituality and Worship

from Part II - The Diversity of Reception

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 November 2024

By
Volker Leppin
Edited by
Markus Bockmuehl
Markus Bockmuehl
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
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Summary

In the absence of its founding figure Jesus Christ, Christianity developed diverse expressions of spirituality and worship. Central to this process is the embodiment of Jesus’s presence via representation and reenactment, traversing the milestones of Jesus’s life – his childhood, adult ministry, and passion. It is marked by a duality of identification with Jesus and counter-identification with others, fostering personal transformation and deeper adherence to Jesus’s example.

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absencerepresentationreenactmentidentificationtransformation
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The New Cambridge Companion to Jesus , pp. 197 - 214
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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Further Reading

Blum, Edward J. and Harvey, Paul. 2014. The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.Google Scholar
Bynum, Caroline Walker. 1984. Jesus as Mother: Studies in the Spirituality of the High Middle Ages. Berkeley: University of California Press.Google Scholar
Certeau, Michel de. 1995. The Mystic Fable, Vol. 1: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Translated by Michael B. Smith. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.Google Scholar
Connelly, Mark. 2012. Christmas: A History. London: Tauris.Google Scholar
Leppin, Volker. 2023. Medieval Spirituality: An Introduction. Baylor: University Press.Google Scholar
Pelikan, Jaroslav. 1987. Jesus through the Centuries: His Place in the History of Culture. New York: Perennial Library.Google Scholar
Rittgers, Ronald. 2012. The Reformation of Suffering: Pastoral Theology and Lay Piety in Late Medieval and Early Modern Germany. New York: Oxford University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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