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The Theology of the Body, Gender, and Genesis: A Biblical Anthropology of Personal Love

This presentation explores the theology of the body, focusing on its capacity to give and receive personal love at any age and in any state of life. It delves into the origins and sources of the Theology of the Body, including the Weekly General Audiences from 1979-84 and the 1997 and 2006 editions. Using the story of Adam and Eve in Genesis, it explores the themes of creation, original innocence, unity, and original nakedness.

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The Theology of the Body, Gender, and Genesis: A Biblical Anthropology of Personal Love

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  1. “The Theology of the Body, Gender, and Genesis”Presentation 2: ToB Sources, Origins, The Human Person Diocese of Lansing John S. Grabowski, Ph.D.

  2. The Theology of the Body

  3. What Is It? A biblical & iconic anthropology which highlight’s the body’s capacity to give & receive personal love at any age and in any state of life.

  4. ToB Editions Weekly General Audiences 1979-84

  5. ToB Editions1997 Volume (great Foreword . . .)

  6. ToB Editions 2006 Volume: excellent translation, new material

  7. Finding Yourself in the Bible

  8. ToB and Reading Scripture • Method of Reading scripture • Veritatis splendor, nos. 6-8 • Commenting on Matthew 19:12-22 • The invitation to find oneself in the text

  9. ContentThe Springboard: Matthew 19: 3-9 Some Pharisees approached him, and tested him, saying, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause whatever?"He said in reply, "Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator 'made them male and female' and said, 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, no human being must separate."They said to him, "Then why did Moses command that the man give the woman a bill of divorce and dismiss (her)?" He said to them, "Because of the hardness of your hearts Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. I say to you, whoever divorces his wife (unless the marriage is unlawful) and marries another commits adultery."

  10. Creation / Original Innocence The indissolubility of marriage = the catalyst “The beginning” Creation as gift The focus on the Yahwist account—a narrative (“subjective”) Original experiences embedded in our revealed theological prehistory Relation to present day experience

  11. Creation / Original Innocence: Solitude “the Lord God then took the man and settled him in the garden of Eden” (Gen. 2:15). The body expresses the person.

  12. Creation / Original Innocence: Solitude “The man gave names to all . . . the animals” (Gen. 2:19)

  13. Creation / Original Innocence: Solitude “It is not good for the man to be alone” (Gen. 2:18)

  14. Creation / Original Innocence: Unity • “God then built into a woman the rib he had taken from the man” (Gen. 2:22) • “…in the divine image He created him. Male and female He created them” (Gen. 1:27) • The Spousal Meaning of the Body

  15. Sex: Union and Procreation • The Language of the Body • “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the Earth and subdue it” (Gen. 1:28). • “Adam knew his wife and she conceived and bore a son, saying I have conceived a man with the help of the Lord” (Gen. 4:1).

  16. Creation / Original Innocence Original Solitude (Genesis 2:16-21) --Self-consciousness & self-determination (2:16-17) --death and immortality - The Body Expresses the Person: “I” Original Unity (Genesis 2:22-24 [1:27]) - The “originality” of men and women --somatic homogeneity/ double solitude - The “spousal meaning of the body”: “I—Thou” - Marriage covenant and the Trinity as communiopersonarum (cf. LF, no. 7) -Marriage as the Heart of the Civilization of Love Original Nakedness (Genesis 2:25 [vs. 3:7]) - The “language of the body” (cf. Gen 4:1) –”to know” --motherhood & fatherhood - Communion leads to community: “I—Thou—We”

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