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2014, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
This study attempts to construct a metaethical framework, consistent with Christianity, for addressing ethical issues concerning the human body. This framing is “Christian” in the sense that key teachings from the historic Christian faith are proposed showing how Christianity can inform the metaphysical, anthropological, biological, and ethical dimensions within the concept of “body ethics.” In this study, it is argued that a broadly biblical Christian perspective can provide a helpful and compelling introduction into the vast field of body ethics by way of five navigational tools, enumerated as the main five chapters of this dissertation. Each of these navigational tools steers through a potential challenge to body ethics by using solutions consistent with historic Christianity. The first topic regards God and the nature and identification of beauty (chapter one), and the challenged answered is that of aesthetic relativism. The second topic regards the nature of ethical grounding (chapter two), and the challenge answered is that of moral relativism. The third topic is that of human nature (chapters three and four), and the challenge answered is that of nominalism (and its variants) wherein human nature is unbounded and potentially meaningless. Bringing all of these together is chapter five, proposing a divinely instilled objective physiological reference point for body ethics. There the challenged answered is that of impracticality; theology and theory find a practical referential point of application with a “normative physical form.” In short, the topical divisions are: (1) Who is God; (2) What is good; (3) What is man; and (4) what is God’s good for man? These elements together synergize into an objective Christian realist address of body ethics. More elements could be considered but these topics suffice in showing that historic Christianity offers a robust framework for addressing body ethics.
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The ambivalence towards the Pauline documents and their legacy is probably nowhere as strong as in the interplay between morality, and the materiality-and corporeality in particular¯of human existence. Paul is often quoted in the formulation of Christian thought and ethics, but his ...
This course examines Christian perspective on the body in relation to their cultural origins, their religious significance, and their development over time. What effect do beliefs such as theincarnation and resurrection have on how we view bodies? How do new discoveries challenge,reinforce or change traditional doctrines about the human body, its value and its meaning?
Religion is the marriage of mind and body. Both the mind and the body can have contrasting purposes. The mind can be used to explore virtue or engage vice. The body can be an instrument of faith that reflects God's love, or as a flawed participant in sin. I would also agree that philosophy is the marriage of the mind and body. My aim of this paper is to discuss the role of the body in the construction of religious practice, by first separating the differences between the religious body and the philosophical body. The difference in the teachings is that philosophy shapes the mind, giving it rules of virtuous ideas to guide the body, whereas religion gives rules for the body to practice to live virtuously in mind. Because of the diverse ideologies under the umbrellas of religion and philosophy, I will be limiting philosophies to Hellenistic culture and religion to those with that share in the father Abraham. These philosophies typically separate the body and soul into parts whereas in the religions of Abraham, the body, soul and spirit are regarded as one. I argue the body plays a crucial role in the construction of religious practice because the body acts as a microcosm in the macrocosm of society insofar as the body shapes religious practices; these religious practices establish cultural patterns.
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In his critique of the excessive influences of the personalistic philosophy on the theological construct that some of the most significant orthodox authors of the present are guided by, Jean‐Claude Larchet widely explains why the relation of the christian toward the body in the spiritual education of the more recent generations of the orthodox christians is vastly neglected. On another place he exposes a voluminous summary of the orthodox church tradition on the christian faith as a method of healing the passions, picturing the role of the traditional christian terms ascetism, athletics and agon (struggle) in the orthodox theology and advocating for the neccessity of their reafirmation in the christian upbringing of the modern people. The physical culture of the orthodox christians should be determined in the shape of explication of the christian endeavour as bodily discipline, considering the neccessary role of the body in bringing up the virtues, and also the importance of healing...
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