Kød, krop og identitet

Johanne Stubbe Teglbjærg Kød, krop og identitet – om betydningen af begrebet 'kød' i nyere protestantisk teologi. (Flesh, body and identity – about the meaning of the concept of flesh in new Protestant theology). The turning point of the article is incarnation itself. Since Antiquity flesh has played a central role in Christianity in the interpretation of the figure Jesus, and from a Protestant point of view the article describes the relevance for an understanding of the question of identity. In this tradition flesh functions as a middle position between the interior and the exterior, which has been interpreted in different ways through the history of theology. Four widespread interpretations are stressed here, before the article includes three contemporary and neoclassical trinity-theological positions from Paul Tillich, Jürgen Moltmann and Wolfhart Pannenberg. Finally the article offers its own suggestion of how the relationship between flesh and Christianity can be interpreted.