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  • The Role of Touch in Comprehending Love: Jesus’s Foot Washing in John 13

    Author(s):
    Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies (view group) , Jeannine Marie Hanger
    Date:
    2022
    Group(s):
    Biblical Studies, Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, Religious Studies, Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies
    Subject(s):
    Foot washing (Rite), Touch, Affect (Psychology)
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    affect theory, sensory anthropology, tactile
    Permanent URL:
    https://doi.org/10.17613/taf2-4f34
    Abstract:
    When Jesus humbly washes his disciples’ feet (John 13), he engages his friends up close using the sense of touch. This article explores how his touch conveys a quality of love that no other physical sense can capture. Sensory Anthropology reveals how touch is often overlooked and undervalued but is quite potent. We confronted these dynamics most recently when the pandemic reversed our cultural rules around touch: almost overnight, touch became dangerous and distance a kindness. This rule-reversal proves analogous for our exploration of the foot washing. By employing Affect Theory, this study draws on these pandemic experiences alongside two tactile exchanges in the Fourth Gospel (John 9, 12) to examine how Jesus’s touch in the foot washing overturns the “rules” to convey a unique quality of love.
    Notes:
    Jeannine Marie Hanger. "The Role of Touch in Comprehending Love: Jesus’s Foot Washing in John 13." Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies 4.1 (2022): 39-60.
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    Last Updated:
    8 months ago
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