God's Gym: Divine Male Bodies of the Bible (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780415917568)

In this strikingly original work, Stephen Moore considers God's male bodies--the body of Yahweh in the Hebrew Bible, and the Father of Jesus Christ, and Jesus himself in the New Testament--and our obsessive earthly quest for a perfect human form. God's Gym is about divinity, physical pain, and the visions of male perfectability.

Weaving together his obsession with human anatomy and dissection, an interest in the technologies of torture, the cult of physical culture, and an expert knowledge of biblical criticism, Moore explains the male narcissism at the heart of the biblical God. God's Gym is an intensely personal book, brimming with our culture's phobias and fascinations about male perfectability.

Author: Stephen Moore
ISBN-10: 0415917565
ISBN-13: 9780415917568
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 10/02/1996
Pages: 204
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 9.18h x 6.09w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 10/01/1996 pg. 85