I haven't read the book yet (I ordered my copy yesterday), but I have read and listened to some discussions (by you and others) of its contents.
Off the cuff observation: Your proposal for (what might be called) the 'perspective of tradition' seems to be consonant with (your description of) JPII's 'perspective on the body.'
I haven't read the book yet (I ordered my copy yesterday), but I have read and listened to some discussions (by you and others) of its contents.
Off the cuff observation: Your proposal for (what might be called) the 'perspective of tradition' seems to be consonant with (your description of) JPII's 'perspective on the body.'
“Life in the Spirit,” the most impressive of the texts collected in the Theology of the Body, is to a large extent an attempt to descry the true form of man by looking to the end towards which he is called, so that the glory of his eschatological horizon, so to speak, might cast its radiance back upon the life he lives in via here below.
Perhaps it could be said that all truly Christian thought and practice has this form or 'perspective.'
I should have indicated that the third paragraph is me quoting you in that New Atlantis essay. But you probably recognized the difference between your prose and mine :)
I haven't read the book yet (I ordered my copy yesterday), but I have read and listened to some discussions (by you and others) of its contents.
Off the cuff observation: Your proposal for (what might be called) the 'perspective of tradition' seems to be consonant with (your description of) JPII's 'perspective on the body.'
“Life in the Spirit,” the most impressive of the texts collected in the Theology of the Body, is to a large extent an attempt to descry the true form of man by looking to the end towards which he is called, so that the glory of his eschatological horizon, so to speak, might cast its radiance back upon the life he lives in via here below.
Perhaps it could be said that all truly Christian thought and practice has this form or 'perspective.'
I don’t remember that essay, but I’ll look it up.
I should have indicated that the third paragraph is me quoting you in that New Atlantis essay. But you probably recognized the difference between your prose and mine :)
Not at all.