What is it about?
In Good Company answers a question that has confounded Christian theologians: What is the nature of the body that will enjoy resurrection at the end of time? In this exciting work of comparative theology, Bede Benjamin Bidlack derives a theory of the body from the French Jesuit, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, by putting him in dialogue with the Song Dynasty Daoist Xiao Yingsou. In addition to its contribution to comparative theology, In Good Company offers the first translation of the preface of Xiao’s commentary on the Duren jing in a Western language, as well as a careful explication of the provocative mountain diagram therein. Bidlack presents an original contribution for both scholars of Christian theology and Chinese religion.
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Why is it important?
This is one of the very few works of theology richly bringing an essential Christian thinker in dialogue with the Daoist tradition. It helps people consider what a body is and why it matters for their own experience of the world and Ultimate Reality. Moreover, it provides Christians the language for expressing what their resurrected bodies will be.
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This was an opportunity for me to answer assumptions about the body that have troubled me as a Catholic Christian who practices the Daoist-influenced art of tai chi.
Dr Bede Bidlack
Saint Anselm College
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This page is a summary of: In Good Company, February 2015, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004288522.
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