The Theology of the Body Eschatological Man
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The Theology of the BodyEschatological Man
Stages of Humanity
The era of humanity before the Fall
The period from the Fall and ends when Christ returns
The final stage of our perfection, achieved in the resurrection at the end of time
Here we are !
Creation The Fall Second Coming
Original Man Historical Man Eschatological Man
Objectives
• Redemption through Christ
• Destiny (eschatology) of Man
• Communion of saints – the perfect fulfilment of the church and community life
Ἰδοὺ , καινὰ ποιῶ πάντα
The Redemption of the Body
• “We ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, we alsogroan within ourselves as we wait for adoption, theredemption of our bodies.” – Rm 8: 20
• The redemption of the body, according to Paul, is an objectof hope
• The Protoevangelium (Gen 3: 15) from the very beginning,gives hope to man, the first announcement of salvation
• Christ gives fulfillment to this hope, in his Paschal Mystery
“I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel.” – Gen 3: 15
Redemption through Christ
• The 3 constitutive elements of the Theology of the Body are contained in what Christ says when He:
appeals to the beginning (Mt 19: 8) – Original Man
appeals to the human heart (Mt 5: 28) – Historical Man
appeals to the resurrection (Mt 22: 30) – Eschatological Man
• Christ speaks to man & His words serve precisely the hope that Romans speaks about
• “I came so that they might have life and have it more abundantly.” – Jn 10: 10
• In his everyday life, man must draw from the mystery of the redemption of the body, the inspiration & strength to overcome the evil that is dormant in him (TOB 86: 7)
• The hope of everyday shows its power in human works & & even in the very movements of the human heart
• Christ “fully reveals to man to man himself and makes his supreme vocation clearer” (GS, 22)
Redemption through Christ
From Expulsion….
….To the Heavenly Jerusalem
• Christ our Joy
• Christ our Hope
• Christ our Redemption
Be not afraid!
Objectives
• Redemption through Christ
• Destiny (eschatology) of Man
• Communion of saints – the perfect fulfilment of the church and community life
Ἰδοὺ , καινὰ ποιῶ πάντα
What is my destiny?
What happens after death?
Is there a Heaven?
What happens to my body?
Michaelangelo (1541) ‘The Last Judgement’, Sistine Chapel
Christ Appeals to the Resurrection
Jesus answered them, “You are wrong, because you knowneither the scriptures nor the power of God. For in theresurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, butare like angels in heaven.
And as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read whatwas said to you by God, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God ofIsaac, and the God of Jacob?’ He is
God not of the dead, but of the living.”
Matthew 22: 29 – 32
The Divinization of the Body
“‘Divinization’ signifies not only that the spirit will
master the body, but, I would say, that it will also
fully permeate the body and the powers of the spirit
will permeate the energies of the body.”
(TOB 67:1)
The Divinization of the Body
• Manichaeism – body bad, spirit good?
• The spousal meaning of the body as an icon
• Will there be sex in heaven?
• Participate fully in the divine nature
• The Communion of Saints
Now
Soul BodyHistorical
Man
“What I do, I do not understand. For I do not do what I want, but I do what I hate.” – Rm 7: 15
Eschaton
Soul BodyDivinized
body
“In the resurrection, the body will return to perfect unity and harmony with the spirit: man will no longer experience the opposition between what is spiritual and what is bodily in him”
– TOB 67: 1
Heaven
CCC 1024
This perfect life with the Most Holy Trinity – thiscommunion of life and love with the Trinity, with theVirgin Mary, the angels and all the blessed – is called"heaven." Heaven is the ultimate end and fulfillment ofthe deepest human longings, the state of supreme,definitive happiness.
Heaven
CCC 1028 Because of his transcendence, God cannot be seen as he is, unless he himself opens up his mystery to man's immediate contemplation and gives him the capacity for it. The Church calls this contemplation of God in his heavenly glory “the beatific vision”
1 Jn 3: 2, 1 Cor 13: 12, Rev 22: 4
Objectives
• Redemption through Christ
• Destiny (eschatology) of Man
• Communion of saints – the perfect fulfilment of the church and community life
Ἰδοὺ , καινὰ ποιῶ πάντα
• The reality of the other world, in the categories of therediscovery of a new, perfect subjectivity of everyone andat the same time of the rediscovery of a new, perfect inter-subjectivity of all
• This reality signifies the real & definitive fulfillment ofhuman subjectivity, and on this basis, the definitivefulfillment of the spousal meaning of the body (TOB68: 4)
The Communion of Saints
958
When the Lord comes in glory, and all his angels with him,death will be no more and all things will be subject to him.But at the present time some of his disciples are pilgrimson earth. Others have died and are being purified, whilestill others are in glory, contemplating ‘in full light, Godhimself triune and one, exactly as he is’
LG 49; Mt 25:31; 1 Cor 15:26-27
The Communion of Saints
The Communion of Saints
Resources
• Man & Woman He Created Them – John Paul II
• Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC)
• Lumen Gentium
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