Bodily and Christian

Christians have a complex relationship with their bodies, perhaps more complex than general society.

A few reasons why:

• The crucified Jesus (a crucifixion not cancelled out by resurrection).
  
  
• The resurrection of Jesus
  
  
• The 'missing' body of Jesus (people struggle with belief in bodily resurrection without seeing the body of Jesus, and tend toward resurrection as a bodyless spiritual state, but then imp0rt all the problems of that kind of dualism.)
  
  
• The 'general' resurrection
  
  
• Imago Dei (Genesis 1:27)
  
  
• Creation as good (Genesis 1) and the resurrection of all creation
  
  
• The Incarnation, specifically the hypostatic union
  
  
• The sacraments
  
  
• The call to sexual purity, especially in a society that views sexual expression as the defining personal freedom (1Cor: 6-7)