WE recently celebrated Easter, and I want to talk about bodies. Not celebrity bodies – as in, “Does my bum look big in this?” – nor in ethereal bodies divorced from spirit, but just bodies. Bodied bodies.
Let’s cut to the chase: what about the body of Jesus? What we do know for sure is that he was born in the flesh. Christian faith is in-carnate, enfleshed. The eternal Word is made flesh, embodied. Christianity is almost brutally materialistic.