The Fat Jesus: Christianity and Body Image

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Willett finds that objections to her being fat stem from people who associate her body type with decadence, gluttony, and a lower moral standard. “That’s the body of somebody who is susceptible to sin! They can’t say no to things,” she says of the stereotypes around this.

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Emily Kahm, assistant professor of theology at the College of St. Mary in Omaha, concurs that the idea that fat bodies are good is “so hard for people to conceptualize.” Theological Wandering in the Cosmic Home, World Parliament of Religion, Salt Lake City, October 2015 Jesus worked as a carpenter from ages 12 to 30, which means for 18 years, Jesus was akin to a day laborer. [4]The fat woman particularly is supposed to be the embodiment of all that we would rather discard,’ says Professor Isherwood. The presence of a fat, female Jesus is a indeed a revolutionary challenge that invites a softer, more yielding, less rigid way of negotiating society and theology. It’s an image that could open doors to a new, albeit symbolic, world where society values women’s unruly desires and fat bodies. It’s highly likely that the real Jesus, fat or thin, would approve of such a revolution. Scholars believe Jesus was about 5 feet, 5 inches (1.7 meters) tall, which is about the average height for an adult male at the time. [3]

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At the time of Jesus' birth, the town of Nazareth only had about 200–400 people. In the New Testament, the town is a literally joke, as seen in the Bible when someone says, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Worshiping the Queer Jesus' in Queer Worship, Reconstructing Liturgical Theology eds Sharon Fennema, W.Scott Hademan, Stephen Burns , Bryan Cones, EVanston, Seabury Press, 2023. Emily. " Did a Solar Eclipse Darken the Skies during Jesus’ Crucifixion?" Salt Lake Tribune, August 19, 2017. Accessed: June 24, 2019. Not only is there a historical legacy of women being associated with dangerous, seductive appetites, but their desires are perceived to be disruptive to one’s moral or spiritual virtue. By implication, ‘women themselves came to be seen as obstacles in the path to men’s spiritual progress,’ says Dr Lelwica. From Plato to Freud to Jenny Craig, the message has been that bodily urges are shameful, and that they should be suppressed by the higher faculties of the mind or the spirit. The key is control. While severe ascetic practices like fasting are rare today, one need only look around to see how highly regarded the tight, taut control of the body is in the 21 st century.Even Jesus needed "alone time." The Gospels frequently mention that Jesus needed to withdraw from the crowds. One cave where he spent some time is called the Eremos Cave, from which the word "desolate" and "hermit" derive. [4] James. " Five Things You Didn't Know about Jesus." CNN: Finding Jesus. April 13, 2017. Accessed: June 24, 2019. Large Our Lady of Lourdes sculpture, Madonna of Lourdes Figurine, Mother of Jesus Statue, Chapel Decoration, Church Figure Some scholars note that Jesus did not want to die. In the Garden of Gethsemane, he says, "Remove this cup from me" and, "My soul is sorrowful even unto death." [4] Finding a way to allow in our human bodies and in our relationships the communal experience of sharing food, like real human food, to nourish us in the same way that the Eucharist does spiritually, that feels very Catholic.”

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Controversies in Feminist Theologies, Co-Author Marcella Althaus-Reid [University of Edinburgh], SCM, Press 2007 A liberation theologian who believes theology to be a communal project fuelled by notions of radical equality and empowered by divine companionship. My areas of expertise are liberation theologies, feminist theologies, eco-theologies, Psychology of Religion, Mysticism, Queer theory and theology. I have taught all these areas. What does it mean to yourself to start being one with them? And isn’t that a challenge sometimes?” she asks. In how the church presents something like a fat body, she notes the message can be anything but welcoming. “There’s the prophetic spiritual warning not to become that.”Rationality, objectivity, rigidity, uprightness, efficiency, discipline and competitiveness are all values we strive for. They are all aspects of what’s called the phallic-symbolic, to borrow a key idea from French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. Osheim adds, “This is something we learn and are going to need to keep learning.” It is a component of synodality, the model of church as walking together and listening to one another, that Pope Francis espouses.

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We are living in a food and body image obsessed culture. We are encouraged to over-consume by the marketing and media that surround us and then berated by those same forces for doing so. At the same time, we are bombarded with images of unnaturally thin celebrities who go to enormous lengths to retain an unrealistic body image, either by extremes of dieting or through plastic surgery or both. The spiritual realm is not immune from these pressures, as can be seen in the flourishing of biblically and faith based weight loss programs that encourage women to lose weight physically and gain spiritually. C. Stephens. The Historical Christ & The Jesus of Faith: The Incarnational Narrative as History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Introducing Body Theology, Co-author Elizabeth Stuart [University of Glamorgan], Sheffield Academic Press: 1998 & Pilgrim Press, Ohio, 2000 Because the Romans felt like it was too gruesome to crucify someone in town, they made people carry their own cross to the outskirts of town, which, in Christ's case, was to Golgotha. [7]Visteme como Madre, llamame Padre: la necesaria invisibilidad de la Mujer dentro de la Iglesia, Iglesia Viva, Spain, 2012 The Indecent Theology of Marcella Althaus Reid, Latin American and Asian Perspectives, ed Lisa Isherwood & Hugo Cordova Quero, Routledge, 2020 I’m very suspicious of control as a kind of power to pursue for women,’ says Dr Lelwica. Control works by domination or suppression, and is reminiscent of that hard, upright image of the male God as the ultimate controller, she says. Diets usually work on this model of suppression.