The body and soul collectively are in the course of redemption. The problems caused because of dualism and the fact that we are bodies has led to the origin of body theology. Body theology is stimulated by liberation theology, process thought and feminist/womanist theology. Process thought is an evolutionary approach towards becoming. As we see that history is part of becoming, so it is also written on the body and by the body, which says that God is working on the body and aslo in and through the history of the body. Liberation theology believes that unfair realities can be changed. feminist theology reminds the Church to take up the lived realities of people seriously by placing the experiences, of especially those that are marginalized
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It also reflects critically on bodily experience as a primary place of the experience of God . The body is used as the subject matter of God’s revelation, justifying this through the central Christian conception of the incarnation which is stated in the gospel of John 1:14, that God has become human in Jesus. Indeed, we can see that all the central essentials of Christianity have the body in mind such as incarnation, virgin birth, crucifixion, resurrection, Trinity, the sacraments. The body is not merely the symbol of theological truth alone, but is the place where these truths are realized also . We see the field of body theology is diverse, as it touches on aspects such as theology, eco theology, queer theology, and so on, however, one specific controversy needs discussion which is the question of the meta-physical, the Divine body outside the human body. Some body theology scholars try to remove the Divine from any position beyond or outside the physical, calling the transcendence as dualistic and questions any opposition between immanence and transcendence. Since transcendence has been used to confirm dualistic constructions previously, it rejects the significance of ordinary
It also reflects critically on bodily experience as a primary place of the experience of God . The body is used as the subject matter of God’s revelation, justifying this through the central Christian conception of the incarnation which is stated in the gospel of John 1:14, that God has become human in Jesus. Indeed, we can see that all the central essentials of Christianity have the body in mind such as incarnation, virgin birth, crucifixion, resurrection, Trinity, the sacraments. The body is not merely the symbol of theological truth alone, but is the place where these truths are realized also . We see the field of body theology is diverse, as it touches on aspects such as theology, eco theology, queer theology, and so on, however, one specific controversy needs discussion which is the question of the meta-physical, the Divine body outside the human body. Some body theology scholars try to remove the Divine from any position beyond or outside the physical, calling the transcendence as dualistic and questions any opposition between immanence and transcendence. Since transcendence has been used to confirm dualistic constructions previously, it rejects the significance of ordinary