... of the theology of incorruptibility. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 Saint Margaret Clitherow English recusant martyrs theology of bodily incorruptibility sanctity conversion and temporal change ...

..., The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200 – 1336 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995), 8 – 11, 126 – 37, 259 – 61, 269 – 70; and Antonia Fitzpatrick, “Bodily Identity in Scholastic Theology” (Ph.D. diss., University of London, 2013). 25 Aquinas’s second “contrary...

...,” and comments, “Well indeed did he understand that the incorruption of the esh consists not so much in abstaining from woman as it does in integrity of heart, which ever and truly preserves the incorrupt holiness of the body by both the fear of God and the love of chastity.”12 Our anonymous monk echoes...

... on annihilation allows us to grasp the productive, antimimetic model of martyrdom that Donne elaborates with such subtlety and that critics still have not fully appreciated. I do not so much emphasize instances in Donne where we see a longing to look past material decay to find an incorruptible...

... the bodily senses,” as Augustine writes. God uses these “to translate his mental concept into the material objects he is making, and to report back to the mind what has been made, so that the mind within may deliberate with the truth” (224 – 25). In similar terms, Teresa de Jesus discusses...