Friday, July 18, 2014

Theology of the Body on the Street Level – Fr. Samuel Medley

Fr. Samuel Medley
Theology of the body on the street level is a course in six weeks, with no philosophical or theological background required with Fr. Samuel Medley from the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity.

The theology of the body consists of a searching analysis of biblical texts that reveal the mystery of the body, sexuality, and marriage at three critical "levels" of human experience: as man experienced them "in the beginning" before sin (Original Man); as man experiences them in human history affected by sin, yet redeemed in Christ (Historical Man); and as man will experience them in the resurrection of the body (Eschatological Man).
Gn 1:26-27. Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth." (27) So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

1. Man and Woman He Created Them



2. Purity of Heart and Life in the Spirit



3. Resurrection of the Body and Celibacy

Jesus takes us to the Resurrection to see that all will be joined to God in their bodies in heaven.


4. Dimension of Covenant and Grace



5. Dimension of the Sign



6. Humanae Vitae and Contraception


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