Theology of Everything/Nuptial Meaning of Everything - An Extension of Biblical Anthropology??
The Theology of the Body dicusses the nuptial meaning of the body. It talks about the union and communion of persons and God through the spirit and the flesh, marriage and continence, and other such dichotomies. The body reveals God and is a symbol to help us understand Him and His World - our World. Why stop then at the body and sexuality?
Biblical analogies abound. We have wonderful symbolic references in the Bible refering to our bodies (Christ as the head, the Church as body and organs, et al), jobs, nature, etc. -- the whole world-- Does this then point to a sort of "Nuptial Meaning/Theology of Everything?"
At first I thought about was Mythology and Nature, etc. How the value of reoccuring archetypes in Christianity is not diminished because those archetypes are in used in other myths and religions; it's just a subconscious manifestation of what we all intrinsically know to be the truth or what we are searching for, because they in turn mean something about God. Then I got to more important matters: the real first thing I thought of (that I tossed aside to ponder a moment on mythology) was:
Why do we have five toes? And why do they wiggle? What does that show? What about nail enamel? What's up with nail enamel? And nails too now that I think about it. Interesting...
What does this world mean? And not just the Big Questions - Everyone focuses on those (and rightly so), but What about the everyday things? What about lily pads, drainpipes, contact lenses, pins and tacks, towels (ohhh, fuzzy :p ) 'To show the beauty and diversity of Creation' I'm sure is true, but there should be something more , that everyone kind of tosses aside as meaningless, or little, or not significant. But then we always hear it said that God is in all the little things - is that really only for our enjoyment and understanding of beauty? To spiritually connect with God? How can we look at these things and see a 'nuptial meaning'? A 'theology of the body'-type anthropomorphic implication?
I am aware that this may get a little funky, a little questionable, a little...not good - people's interpretations of us having 5 toes turning into eugenic prejudicial tracts in complete disalignment with the Church. I think it might be possible, thought, to speculate on these things -- all these crazy things in our world - to gain further insight into an extension of biblical anthropology to understand a 'Theology of the World', as long as we remain rooted in Church teachings and accept the limitations of our own beings and experiences.
What do you think?
Biblical analogies abound. We have wonderful symbolic references in the Bible refering to our bodies (Christ as the head, the Church as body and organs, et al), jobs, nature, etc. -- the whole world-- Does this then point to a sort of "Nuptial Meaning/Theology of Everything?"
At first I thought about was Mythology and Nature, etc. How the value of reoccuring archetypes in Christianity is not diminished because those archetypes are in used in other myths and religions; it's just a subconscious manifestation of what we all intrinsically know to be the truth or what we are searching for, because they in turn mean something about God. Then I got to more important matters: the real first thing I thought of (that I tossed aside to ponder a moment on mythology) was:
Why do we have five toes? And why do they wiggle? What does that show? What about nail enamel? What's up with nail enamel? And nails too now that I think about it. Interesting...
What does this world mean? And not just the Big Questions - Everyone focuses on those (and rightly so), but What about the everyday things? What about lily pads, drainpipes, contact lenses, pins and tacks, towels (ohhh, fuzzy :p ) 'To show the beauty and diversity of Creation' I'm sure is true, but there should be something more , that everyone kind of tosses aside as meaningless, or little, or not significant. But then we always hear it said that God is in all the little things - is that really only for our enjoyment and understanding of beauty? To spiritually connect with God? How can we look at these things and see a 'nuptial meaning'? A 'theology of the body'-type anthropomorphic implication?
I am aware that this may get a little funky, a little questionable, a little...not good - people's interpretations of us having 5 toes turning into eugenic prejudicial tracts in complete disalignment with the Church. I think it might be possible, thought, to speculate on these things -- all these crazy things in our world - to gain further insight into an extension of biblical anthropology to understand a 'Theology of the World', as long as we remain rooted in Church teachings and accept the limitations of our own beings and experiences.
What do you think?
posted by Silabella @ 12:45 AM
1 Comments:
At 6:27 AM,
Velvet said…
i agree that we should have a 'theology of ______' (fill in the blank) basically with anything and everything that we should see the world with the lens into the unseen and i think christ says that the story of salvation is written in creation, ie, the pashal mystery is everywhere... coolness
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