God: An Anatomy — The Body Theology Tried to Erase
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
This episode explores God: An Anatomy by Francesca Stavrakopoulou as a systems-level analysis of theological abstraction, divine embodiment, and institutional interpretation.
The discussion examines:
· how ancient texts imagined God as bodily and physically present
· how later theology transformed that body into abstraction
· how translation and allegory reshape what readers perceive
· why institutions often preserve difficult texts by controlling interpretation
· how divine anatomy intersects with political…
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