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Article: Alleluia! Good news for the body: ring out with Easter joy! Can laughter and hospitality give us insight into resurrection?(Cover story)
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- Catholic New Times
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- April 23, 2006
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There is no doubt that Christianity's relationship with the body has been ambivalent. Christians proclaim belief in the "resurrection of the body" in the creed and in glorious alleluias at Easter. Yet, there has been a decidedly love/hate relationship going on between body and spirit.
In recent years, with the emergence of feminist and other contextual theologies, bodily engagement has become an important theme. With that came "body theology." Body theology seeks to create theology through the body and not about the body, thus ensuring that theories do not get written on the bodies of others who then become marginalized.
Body theology can offer us at ...