Theology and the Body
Theology and the Body
edited by Stephen Garner
Copyright Date: 2011
Published by: ATF (Australia) Ltd.
https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt163t9m6
Pages: 97
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt163t9m6
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Theology and the Body
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The human body is the primary lens through which we view, encounter and engage the world around us. It is no surprise then to find a wide range of theological reflection upon the human body, from those that affirm the human body as something very good, through to other more negative views where the body is something to be marginalised or escaped from. The body and theology also meet in conversations over body, mind and soul; gender; disability; eschatology; race and culture; sexuality; Christology; and medicine and technology to name but a few. Each of the authors in this volume pick up the theme of embodiment as the lens through which they look at an aspect of theology and body, providing an engaging window onto some of these discussions.

eISBN: 978-1-921817-55-7
Subjects: Religion
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  1. Front Matter
    Front Matter (pp. i-iv)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt163t9m6.1
  2. Table of Contents
    Table of Contents (pp. v-vi)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt163t9m6.2
  3. Editorial
    Editorial (pp. vii-xii)
    Stephen Garner
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt163t9m6.3
  4. A Theology of the Body: Pope John Paul II’s Catechetical Lectures
    A Theology of the Body: Pope John Paul II’s Catechetical Lectures (pp. 1-14)
    Adam G Cooper
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt163t9m6.4

    This essay provides a basic introduction to the theology of the body of the late Pope John Paul II. John Paul II developed this lengthy theological work over the course of a five-year series of catechetical lectures given in Rome from September 1979 to November 1984. The lectures were addressed to the large weekly gatherings of pilgrims assembled at the Vatican on Wednesdays for prayer, catechesis, and the blessing of their universal pastor. Acclaimed or criticised, the collated and published versions of the lectures have captured worldwide attention.¹

    Catholic biblical scholar Luke Timothy Johnson has found the content too abstract.²...

  5. Blood, Tears and Race: Moravian Missionaries and Indigenous Bodies in Colonial Australia
    Blood, Tears and Race: Moravian Missionaries and Indigenous Bodies in Colonial Australia (pp. 15-32)
    Joanna Cruickshank
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt163t9m6.5

    In 1866, a German Moravian missionary named CW Kramer, working at the Aboriginal mission of Ramahyuck in rural Victoria, wrote a report on the progress he believed was being made at the mission. Describing two candidates for baptism, he noted:

    What a difference there is between even the looks of these two young men and those of the heathen! As they saw the church-building advancing and the day of their baptism drawing nearer and nearer, their faces beamed with joy, and they went about constantly singing hymns.¹

    This description suggested that the distinction between Christian and ‘heathen’ could be recognised...

  6. Image-bearing cyborgs?
    Image-bearing cyborgs? (pp. 33-54)
    Stephen Garner
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt163t9m6.6

    In recent times the figure of the cyborg has imposed itself upon Western technoculture through popular culture, and in sociological re & ection within academia. The term ‘cyborg’ or ‘cybernetic organism’, coined by Manfred Clynes and Nathan Kline in the 1960s, was part of a proposal to technologically augment human beings (in particular, astronauts) to survive in harsh environments.¹ Drawing from this idea popular culture has often portrayed the cyborg figure as the literal fusion of the biological human being with inorganic technology, often to the detriment of human identity and dignity. Alternatively, in the academic world the cyborg represents...

  7. Torn between Body and Soul: the Evolved Body in Theological Perspective
    Torn between Body and Soul: the Evolved Body in Theological Perspective (pp. 55-72)
    Nicola Hoggard Creegan
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt163t9m6.7

    Teresa of Avila is right of course. But this does not mean that we value our bodies, or think much of whence they have come. Humans live uneasily, hovering between the world of animals and a world transcending this, determined in some cases to live as though we belong to neither realm—gods of our selves, and superior and dominating of the animals who have at times been seen as mere machines. Humans are restless creatures, constantly bewailing our bodies, frustrated by the limit of bodies, inspired by nonphysical and complex abstract and spiritual realities that transcend the body. We...

  8. Young People, Technoculture and Embodied Spirituality
    Young People, Technoculture and Embodied Spirituality (pp. 73-96)
    Craig Mitchell
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt163t9m6.8

    Any parent will tell you that the lives of their children have been seduced by technology, with endless texting, chatting, gaming, and surfing. Family households dedicate increasing hours and income to information and communication technologies (ICT). Although it is easy to think of technology as mechanical and therefore inhuman, increasingly, ICT is not only ‘intelligent’ but also inseparable from human behaviours and attitudes. A new study of 2000 US teenagers indicates that their media use is increasing (currently 7½ hours per day), along with their propensity to ‘multi-task’ (twenty-nine percent of their media time).³ The daily existence of the vast...

  9. List of Contributors
    List of Contributors (pp. 97-98)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt163t9m6.9