• introductions: guest panelists Dianna Anderson and Nate Craddock
• four texts:
  • Athanasius, De Incarnatione
  • Susan Bordo, excerpt from Unbearable Weight in Writing on the Body, ed. Katie Conboy, Nadia Medina, and Sarah Stanbury; and their introduction to this anthology
  • Mary Timothy Prokes, Toward a Theology of the Body
  • David Brown, God and Grace of Body

Knowing

• What is incarnational theology?
  • “where God intersects with the lived experience of a human in a body”
  • Athanasius and De Incarnatione
• What is body studies?
  • introduction to Writing on the Body—and feminism’s historical and present-day problems with intersectionality
  • Bordo and bodily inscription

Reading

• Pope John Paul II’s Theology of the Body and its influence—problems and possibilities
• the Eucharist as bodily experience and transgressive performance
• importance of acknowledging embodiment in the church

Passing On

• Nancey Murphy, Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies?
• Joke share: www. bod4god.org
• Andrea Bieler and Luise Schottroff, The Eucharist: Bodies, Bread, and Resurrection
• William T. Cavanaugh, Torture and Eucharist: Theology, Politics, and the Body of Christ
• Patrick Cheng, Radical Love: An Introduction to Queer Theology
• Janet Mock, Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love, & So Much More