Saturday, March 19, 2011

Inordinate Theology of the Body?

I think part the Catholic response is a reaction against the emphasis of sex as the casual sterilized sport it has become in our culture. But I must agree that we may have fallen into the trap that Theology of the Body is taught almost to an inordinant degree, or exclusively as the only statement that the Church has made concerning the place of sex in God's design. I personally find St Paul more succinct and clear and beautiful concerning this in his analogy of Christ and the Church as bridegroom and bride. John Paul's Evangelium Vitae also seems to me more excessible and succinct than TOB. And yes there are other spiritual poisons that have infected our culure that we ignore at our peril---secularism, modernity, the "isms" of the twentieth century. These need to be addressed from a solidly orthodox viewpoint. I, for one, think too that a similar exclusionary emphasis exists in the pro-life mentality---while abortion certainly has to be fought and I laud those folks that fight this cancer in our culture; yet it must be stated that it is only the symptom or consequence of a godless society that seeks promiscuous pleasure to fill the God-shaped hole.

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