In good company : the body and divinization in Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ and Daoist Xiao Yingsou / by Bede Benjamin Bidlack.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Series Editors' Foreword; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Teilhard de Chardin; The Mountain Diagram in the Inner Meaning of the Scripture of Salvation; Structure of the Work; Chapter 1 Trying to Hold Together: Body/Soul Dualism in Christian Anthropology; New Testament Theologies; Paul; The Body in the Gospel of John; Patristic Period; Irenaeus of Lyons; Augustine; Medieval Period: Thomas Aquinas; Enter Aristotelian Metaphysics; The Soul as Actuality; The Body's Effect on the Soul; Modern France; Henri Bergson; Maurice Blondel; Conclusion.

Chapter 2 The Body and Divinization in TeilhardPart I: The Appearance of the Human; The Stuff of the Universe; Life Arises; Thought Makes the Human; Christ and Creation; Conclusions about the Body; Part II: Divinization in The Divine Milieu; Divinization of Activities; Divinization of Passivities; Conclusion: The Divine Milieu; Part III: Divinization is Centration; Centration: Microcosmic; Centration: Macrocosmic; The Body Beyond Matter; Chapter 3 Daoist Body and Divinization; Part I: Standard Body Models; The Mystical Body; The Microcosmic Body; The Bureaucratic Body.

The Divine Residence BodyPart II: Alchemy; Historical Background; The Alchemical Body; The Road to Immortality: The Alchemical Process; Conclusion; Chapter 4 The Body and Divinization of Xiao Yingsou; Part I: The Text of the Preface; Xiao Yingsou; Numinous Treasure Daoism; Scripture of Salvation; Xiao's Use of Alchemy in the Preface; Part II: Mountains in Chinese Religion and Art; Part III: The Mountain Diagram; Comprehensive Features: The Title; Other Comprehensive Features; The Lower Region; The Middle Region; The Upper Region; Conclusion; Chapter 5 Giving Teilhard His Body.

Part I: The BodyBody as Cosmos; Body as Community; Body Conclusion: Jesus' Resurrection Body; Part II: Divinization; Divinization as Centration; The Use of Mind; Haloing; Divinization Conclusion; Conclusion; Appendix 1 Translation of the Inner Meaning of the Scripture of Salvation; Appendix 2 Analysis of the Mountain Diagram; Glossary of Chinese Terms; Bibliography; Index.

With In Good Company, Bede Benjamin Bidlack derives a theory of the body from the French Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin using his own, first-time translation of the thought of Daoist Xiao Yingsou.

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