How Long to Read The Corporeal Imagination

How Long Does it Take to Read The Corporeal Imagination?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 36 minutes to read The Corporeal Imagination by Patricia Cox Miller

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

With few exceptions, the scholarship on religion in late antiquity has emphasized its tendencies toward transcendence, abstraction, and spirit at the expense of matter. In The Corporeal Imagination, Patricia Cox Miller argues instead that ancient Christianity took a material turn between the fourth and seventh centuries. During this period, Miller contends, there occurred a major shift in the ways in which the human being was oriented in relation to the divine, a shift that reconfigured the relationship between materiality and meaning in a positive direction. The Corporeal Imagination is a groundbreaking investigation into the theological poetics of material substance in late ancient Christian texts. From hagiographies to literary descriptions of sacred paintings to treatises on relics and theurgy, Miller examines a wide variety of ancient texts to reveal how Christian writers increasingly described the matter of the world as invested with divine power. By appealing to the reader's sensory imagination, Christian texts endowed phenomena like relics, saints' bodies in hagiography, and saints' presence in icons with a visual and tactile presence. The book draws on a variety of contemporary theoretical models to elucidate the significance of all these materials in ancient religious life and imagination.

How long is The Corporeal Imagination?

The Corporeal Imagination by Patricia Cox Miller is 273 pages long, and a total of 69,069 words.

This makes it 92% the length of the average book. It also has 84% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Corporeal Imagination Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 17 minutes to read The Corporeal Imagination aloud.

What Reading Level is The Corporeal Imagination?

The Corporeal Imagination is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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