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Originally published in 1983, Leo Steinberg's classic work has changed the viewing habits of a generation. After centuries of repression and censorship, the sexual component in thousands of revered icons of Christ is restored to visibility. Steinberg's evidence resides in the imagery of the overtly sexed Christ, in Infancy and again after death. Steinberg argues that the artists regarded the deliberate exposure of Christ's genitalia as an affirmation of kinship with the human condition. Christ's lifelong virginity, understood as potency under check, and the first offer of blood in the circumcision, both required acknowledgment of the genital organ. More than exercises in realism, these unabashed images underscore the crucial theological import of the Incarnation.
This revised and greatly expanded edition not only adduces new visual evidence, but deepens the theological argument and engages the controversy aroused by the book's first publication.
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Acknowledgments THE SEXUALITY OF CHRIST IN RENAISSANCE ART AND IN MODERN OBLIVION (1983)
EXCURSUSES (1983)
I. Whether the subject exists II. Whether the subject ought to be publicized III. Regarding the reached-for chin IV. Of the practice of fondling a man-child's genitalia V. The Baldung Grien woodcut: irreligious or orthodox'?
VI. Who needs God's divinity proved?
VII. Dogma as pictorial subject, including the precociousness and the smile of the Child VIII. God's greater deed IX. The signal at the breast X. "Complete in all the parts of a man"
XI. The necessary nudity of the suffering Christ XII. Baptism and required dress XIII. The virginity of Christ XIV. Potency under check XV. Concerning Michelangelo's Risen Christ
XVI. Of the nudity of the Christ Child XVII. The body as hierarchy XVIII. 14th-century nudity XIX. Gossamer at the hips XX. Exposure as revelation XXI. A digression on the "Stone of Unction"
XXII. The eighth day XXIII. Resisting the physical evidence of circumcision XXIV. Of sermons and homilophobia XXV. The blood hyphen XXVI. The calendrical style of the Circumcision XXVII. The showing in Bethlehem XXVIII. The protection motif XXIX. Images of self-touch and of Infant erection XXX. Bowdlerism XXXI. "A peculiar notion"
XXXII. On the afterlife of Boccaccio's jest XXXIII. Sesostris' hieroglyph XXXIV. Wings of excess XXXV. Not other than willed XXXVI. The un-dead hand on the groin XXXVII. In imitation of Christ XXXVIII. The Throne of Grace XXXIX. Postscript by John W. O'Malley, S.J.
RETROSPECT (1995)
Reintroduction
1. The Second Coming of Adam
2. New Arrivals
3. Explaining Away
4. The Pendulum of Christ's Human Nature: A Theological Interlude
5. The Ibiquity of the Erection Motif
6. Please Delete Sexuality
7. A Trial of Texts
8. Further Lines of Resistance
9. Ad Bynum Epilogue: Lines of Convergence Bibliography List of Illustrations Index