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Encyclopedia entry: Christianity and the body
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- The Oxford Companion to the Body
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Christianity and the body
Christianity is centred on the life, death, and
resurrection
of Jesus of Nazareth, yet there is enormous diversity in the interpretation of that life and death, and no agreement about what is meant by resurrection. This multiplicity of interpretation begins with the gospels themselves. Accounts of Jesus' resurrection, for example, range from placing emphasis on the physicality of the resurrected body, which eats boiled fish and honeycomb (Luke 24: 39), to asserting that Jesus could pass through closed doors and was unrecognizable to his disciples (Luke 24: 16–30).
Mirroring claims in the gospels about the resurrection of Jesus Christ, some of the earliest ...