17th Century Model of Antropology of Human Body in Sermon From the Dead to the Living by Eleutery Zielejewicz (1651) Cover Image

XVII-wieczny model antropologii ciała w Kazaniu umarłych do żywych Eleuterego Zielejewicza (1651)
17th Century Model of Antropology of Human Body in Sermon From the Dead to the Living by Eleutery Zielejewicz (1651)

Author(s): Małgorzata Krzysztofik
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Anthropology, 17th Century, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: body anthropology; a seventeenth-century sermon; a funeral sermon; a body living; the body is dead; the body is resurrected;

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses some images of the human body described in the 17th century funeral sermon by E. Zielejewicz: living, dead and resurrected. The preacher condemns all the signs of taking care of beauty of one’s living body. He describes a process of decay of a corpse with an anatomical precision. He tells about a mystery of resurrection using symbols (such as a bee or a palm tree). The author looks at different categories of human bodies from theological and religious perspective. His eschatological perspective of seeing humans imposes a specific understanding of aesthetical categories. Anthropology of the human body in Sermon from the Dead to the Living is directed to the eschatological dimension of human existence.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 13
  • Page Range: 249-267
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Polish