The Word made flesh : a history of Christian thought / Margaret R. Miles.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [392]-413) and index.

The Christian movement in the second and third centuries -- Inclusions and exclusions : the fourth century -- Fleshing out the Word : medieval Christianity East and West -- The voice of the pages : incarnation and hierarchy in the medieval West interlude -- Death and the body in the fourteenth-century West -- The suffering body of Christ : the fifteenth century -- Re-forming the body of Christ : the sixteenth century, part 1 -- Reforming the body of Christ : the sixteenth century, part 2 -- Rationalism and religious passion : the seventeenth century -- Keeping body and soul together : eighteenth-century Christianity.