Comments on: My two cents on Theology of the Body, part III http://novantiqua.com/2009/07/12/my-two-cents-on-theology-of-the-body-part-iii/ Sun, 11 Dec 2011 04:45:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Kevin F. Keiser http://novantiqua.com/2009/07/12/my-two-cents-on-theology-of-the-body-part-iii/#comment-192 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:51:58 +0000 http://novantiqua.com/?p=393#comment-192 I should make clear that:
a. For the purposes of these posts, I do not restrict the definition of TOB to the TOB of JPII (though he is certainly the pioneer, and…)
b. That I think JPII shows the best example of how to use TOB well. For instance, the majority of his work is true Theology, i.e., by looking to what the book of Genesis says about the original state, about man’s original solitude, etc. he is certainly trying to find what God tells us about the body, taking his invitation from our Lord Himself, who condemned divorce, saying, “In the beginning, it was not so.”

With these in mind, I also meant this post as a clarification, not as a real problem, as I said at the beginning. Indeed, a certain amount of what the body can tell us about God is useful in Theology, as will be eminently clear in my next post. But I wanted to clarify that this is not the definition of a true Theology of the Body. Such a clarification was needed, I think, because, whether it is anybody’s fault or not, many people do tend to see it as a study of what the differentiation of the sexes, for instance, tells us about God. This is helpful, but the real Theology is finding what God has said about the body, for which I find St. Paul’s citation above an excellent example.

The whole aim of these posts is expressing my concerns and cautions, not saying the whole thing is a dud.

]]> By: Matthew http://novantiqua.com/2009/07/12/my-two-cents-on-theology-of-the-body-part-iii/#comment-189 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:50:04 +0000 http://novantiqua.com/?p=393#comment-189 Again – do you have at least an example of either who these people are or an example argument of going from the human body to knowledge of God? This just seems to be very general and so imply either that JPII thought these things or at least implied these things in his work. Otherwise the problem is not with TOB as such but with certain interpreters of TOB.

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