Blood Theology

Offers the first focused investigation of why Christians invoke the language of blood to cooperate, sacrifice, grow and disagree, and of how this theological discourse seeps into wider debates in civic society. Religious arguments have significant societal consequences, Rogers contends; and secular citizens must do their best to understand them.

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Subject Index

Cover -- Half-title page -- Reviews -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part I Why We See Red -- 1 How Blood Marks the Bounds of the Christian Body: Overtures and Refrains -- Part II Blood Seeps in Where It Hardly Seems to Belong: Blood Unnecessary and Inexhaustible -- 2 Blood after Isaac: And God Said "Na" -- 3 Blood after Leviticus: Separation and Sacrifice -- 4 Blood after the Last Supper: Jesus and the Gender of Blood -- Part III Blood Makes a Language in Which to Conduct Disputes: Family, Truth, and Tribe

5 Bridegrooms of Blood: Same-Sex Desire and the Blood of Christ -- 6 Red in Tooth and Claw: Creationism, Evolution, and the Blood of Christ -- 7 Blood Purity and Human Sacrifice: Castilians Meet Aztecs in War -- Part IV The Blood of God at the Heart of Things: Causality Sacramental and Cosmic -- 8 How the Eucharist "Causes" Salvation: The Physiology of the Eucharist, or Virtue and Blood Chemistry -- 9 The Blood of Christ and the Christology of Things: Why Things Became Human -- Appendix Review of Gil Anidjar's Blood: A Critique of Christianity -- Sources Cited or Consulted -- Scripture Index