Christ and Culture

Acknowledgements ix

Introduction 1

Part One THE ECONOMY OF RESPONSE 27

1 Christology and Mimesis 29

2 The Schizoid Christ 60

3 The Body of the Church and its Erotic Politics 92

Part Two ENGENDERING CHRIST 111

4 Redemption: Between Reception and Response 113

5 Divinity and Sexual Difference 129

6 The Politics of Christ's Circumcision (and the Mystery of all Flesh) 159

Part Three THE LIVING CHRIST: ECONOMIES OF REDEMPTION 181

7 Allegoria Amoris: A Christian Ethics 183

8 Spiritual Exercises: A Christian Pedagogy 219

9 Suffering and Incarnation: A Christian Politics 248

Index 267