This paper explores the origins of the Anabaptist doctrine of the “celestial flesh,” which conceived Christ as generated purely out of the substance of the Godhead and thus possessing an entirely “celestial body.” It argues that the origins of this doctrine lie in late medieval alchemical tracts adapted in Paracelsus’s Liber de Sancta Trinitate of 1524, according to which God has a body of heavenly flesh out of which he brings forth a heavenly woman. Through their sexually conceived union the eternal son is begotten and born with a celestial body.

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天上的性别：帕拉塞尔苏斯和基督“天体”的教导

这篇论文探讨了再洗礼派“天体”教义的起源，该教义认为基督纯粹是从神格的实体中产生的，因此拥有一个完整的“天体”。它认为，这一学说的起源在于中世纪晚期的炼金术小册子，改编自帕拉塞尔苏斯1524 年的《圣三一圣》，根据其中上帝有一个天堂般的肉体，他从中生出了一个天堂般的女人。通过他们的性受孕结合，永恒的儿子诞生并拥有一个天体。