The Fat Jesus: Christianity and Body Image

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Willett finds that objections to her being fat stem from people who associate her body type with decadence, gluttony, and a lower moral standard. Hard to tell because my daughter is still very small, but I sense I’m not going to be that sort of mother. Zoë Bennett is Director of Post-graduate Studies in Pastoral Theology in the Cambridge Theological Federation and Anglia Ruskin University. The first person you encounter who makes you feel unattractive, annoying or stupid should not be the first person you encounter at all.

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Other people telling you that smoking is ugly, smelly, antisocial… yellow teeth, dull hair, black lungs… whether it’s a beloved friend/partner/relative or a busybody on a train platform, it simply never “helps”. I have supervised 20 PhD students and been an external examiner for 24 PhDs in Canada, USA, Ireland, Philippines, Australia, UK. But rather than citing this connection, Oakes cites the attitude of commentators who said that Floyd would have died anyway because of his weight, an example that manages to blend racism, fatphobia, and ableism.I review for SCM, Equinox, Columbia University Press, Fordham University Press, Routledge, and Orbis.

It depends what you mean by fat - The Church Times

While many theologians, historians and feminists remain fascinated with the question of whether there are similarities between Saint Catherine and today’s women with anorexia, the gaps in historical context make this comparison difficult, if not meaningless. There’s not really the option to be cruel to your body, because the body has forever been elevated to something different from everything else in the world because of the incarnation,” says Catholic author Simcha Fisher.The book in­cludes violence against mothers, the grotesque body, cosmetic surgery, self-harm, domestic violence, body-building, and the slicing-up of women in the Bible, the Marquis de Sade, films, and novels.