The Virtual Body of Christ in a Suffering World
The Virtual Body of Christ in a Suffering World

Author: Deanna A. Thompson

Publisher: Abingdon Press

Published: 2016-11-01

Total Pages: 131

ISBN-13: 1501815199

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We live in a wired world where 24/7 digital connectivity is increasingly the norm. Christian megachurch communities often embrace this reality wholeheartedly while more traditional churches often seem hesitant and overwhelmed by the need for an interactive website, a Facebook page and a twitter feed. This book accepts digital connectivity as our reality, but presents a vision of how faith communities can utilize technology to better be the body of Christ to those who are hurting while also helping followers of Christ think critically about the limits of our digital attachments. This book begins with a conversion story of a non-cell phone owning, non-Facebook using religion professor judgmental of the ability of digital tools to enhance relationships. A stage IV cancer diagnosis later, in the midst of being held up by virtual communities of support, a conversion occurs: this religion professor benefits in embodied ways from virtual sources and wants to convert others to the reality that the body of Christ can and does exist virtually and makes embodied difference in the lives of those who are hurting. The book neither uncritically embraces nor rejects the constant digital connectivity present in our lives. Rather it calls on the church to a) recognize ways in which digital social networks already enact the virtual body of Christ; b) tap into and expand how Christ is being experienced virtually; c) embrace thoughtfully the material effects of our new augmented reality, and c) influence utilization of technology that minimizes distraction and maximizes attentiveness toward God and the world God loves.

The Enjoyment of Christ for the Body in 1 Corinthians
The Enjoyment of Christ for the Body in 1 Corinthians

Author: Witness Lee

Publisher: Living Stream Ministry

Published: 2005-11-01

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 0736352740

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This book covers four crucial matters found in 1 Corinthians: enjoying Christ practically as the life-giving Spirit to be one spirit with Him; eating and drinking Christ in 1 Corinthians; the enjoyment of the riches of Christ issuing in the corporate Christ, the Body-Christ; and coming back to the proper ground of oneness and fellowshipping to enjoy the Body-Christ.

One Body, One Spirit, and One New Man
One Body, One Spirit, and One New Man

Author: Witness Lee

Publisher: Living Stream Ministry

Published: 2000-06-01

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13: 073635445X

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Ephesians reveals three great items in the New Testament: the Body of Christ, the Spirit, and the new man. Each of these items is uniquely one and ultimately related to Christ. The Body of Christ is the fullness of Christ, the One who fills all in all. The Spirit imparts the divine life, which contains the elements of Christ's divinity, humanity, death and resurrection, into the members of His Body, and this impartation of life produces a corporate expression of Christ that is displayed in and through the one new man. In One Body, One Spirit, and One New Man Witness Lee shows how the Body of Christ becomes His fullness through the believers' enjoyment of Christ. As we experience His boundless and immeasurable riches through the Spirit, we are reconstituted as members of His body, and as we take Him as our life and our person, the one new man in the universe comes into being in a practical way.

Envisioning the Cosmic Body of Christ
Envisioning the Cosmic Body of Christ

Author: Aurica Jax

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-08-19

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 1000682374

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The metaphor of the cosmos as the Body of Christ offers an opportunity to escape the aporias of standard Body of Christ imagery, which has often proved anthropocentric, exclusivist, triumphalist and/or sexist in the analyses of classical theologies. The body motif in particular contains starting points for current body discourses of gender-sensitive and ecological theologies, especially in their mutual overlaps. This book offers a critical evaluation of the prospects and boundaries of an updated metaphor of the Body of Christ, especially in its cosmic dimension. The first part of the book addresses the complex tradition in which the universal dimension of cosmological Christologies is located, including the thinking of the Apostles Paul and John, Origen, Cusanus, Teilhard de Chardin, McFague, and Panikkar. In the second part of the book, representatives of various innovative concepts will contribute to the anthology. This is a wide-ranging study of the implications of a new cosmic Body of Christ. As such, it will be of interest to academics working in Religion and Gender, Religion and the Environment, Theology and Christology.

Ye Are the Body of Christ
Ye Are the Body of Christ

Author: Joel Hilaire M.D.

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2017-12-15

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 1546211543

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Ye Are the Body of Christ presents a deep understanding of the human body to explain biblical concepts pertinent to the body of Christ. When the apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 12:27 concludes, Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular, this somehow echoes the words of King David in Psalms 139:14, I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. Pauls comparison of the functioning of the natural body to the spiritual one gives insight into the conversations that must have taken place between the apostle of the gospel of uncircumcision and the beloved physician, Luke. In Ye Are the Body of Christ, a book tagged by some as being the first of its kind, the author skillfully uses his deep knowledge of the human body to prove biblical points concerning the Godhead, the meaning of the Crucifixion, and the biblical heart, and to demonstrate the significance of multiple diseases that have plagued humanity throughout the ages. How important is vision, naturally and spiritually speaking? How does our immune system correlate to the spiritual life? Is leprosy in the Bible the same as modern leprosy? What is the hidden message behind HIV/AIDS? Why do we develop cancer? Will we ever find a cure for cancer? What is the body of Christ? How should the body of Christ function? How should we care for the body of Christ? It is amazing how the author, who is both a physician and a minister of the gospel, can effortlessly navigate through his understanding of the human body and the magnificence of the spiritual realm. Once you understand the different aspects covered in Ye Are the Body of Christ, your walk with God will never be the same.

Walk through the Temple of Your Own Body
Walk through the Temple of Your Own Body

Author: Terry Swiger

Publisher: WestBow Press

Published: 2014-03

Total Pages: 117

ISBN-13: 1490825835

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With the upmost intimacy, the Spirit of the Lord unveiled many hidden secrets of God's image throughout our bones. It was because of this Teacher's insight and guidance through the study of the musculoskeletal system, I was privileged to enjoy this eye-opening journey. While on our path of study, this amazing Teacher highlighted descriptive words along with biblical number values that were as golden nuggets or stepping stones through the temple of my own body. Those same golden nuggets proved to reveal hidden secrets of God's handiwork as from a carpenter's blueprint. The Spirit of the Lord revealed God's image in one group of our bones, to represent Jesus' birth; His life and ministry; thorns that relate to the Kingdom of God, and the fruits of the Holy Spirit. Revelation 4:2-4 has a powerful image of God that surrounds the Sword of the Spirit; and a breathtaking image of God's love through the Cross. Each and every one of God's images relate to Genesis 1:26. God said, "Let Us make man in our image, according to Our likeness..." I was constantly reminded that these images of God, and more, were first framed within Adam's bones, and they exceed far above all the animals that God Created. This book holds a gift of love and encouragement for the entire body of Christ as well as those who are searching for unshakeable identity. God's image, cleverly designed within our bones will build greater confidence to allow God's power to flow more freely.

Reimagining the Body of Christ in Paul's Letters
Reimagining the Body of Christ in Paul's Letters

Author: Yung Suk Kim

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2019-05-08

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 1532677766

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This book questions all familiar readings of the body of Christ in Paul’s letters and helps readers rethink the context and the purpose of this phrase. Against the view that Paul’s body of Christ metaphor mainly has to do with a metaphorical organism that emphasizes unity, Kim argues that the body of Christ has more to do with the embodiment of God’s gospel through Christ. While Deutero-Pauline and pastoral letters use this body metaphor mainly as an organism, Paul’s undisputed letters—in particular, 1 Corinthians and Romans—treat it differently, with a focus on Christlike embodiment. Reexamining the diverse use of the body of Christ in Paul’s undisputed letters, this book argues that Paul’s body of Christ metaphor has to do with the proclamation of God’s gospel.