Taking Up the Cross, and Redeeming the Body

By Fernando Davalos

We are here in a tent waiting for our redemption. And this tent is our body.

The body of Christ is a mystery as well as our participation in it if it happens at all.

The body and its natural senses have no direct perception of God.

Our bodily situation renders it difficult to realize the existence of communion with God.

However, the body is a gift, and as such, is capable of revealing the divine image, in which every human being is made, and the body's capacity to make visible the divine reality is fulfilled in Jesus Christ, who is the Incarnate Word of God.

Christ has redeemed our bodies.

The redemption of the body achieved by Christ is the source of a moral duty that commits Christians to purity.

Nowadays the role of the physical body as a vehicle for our atonement and final redemption is seldom mentioned and is undervalued even if it's considered in many Christian denominations.

Accordingly, and to fulfil Jesus' invitation to follow Him, Christians must take up their spiritual crosses through self-denial toward the redemption of their bodies, achieving their atonement and communion with God.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Fernando Davalos
• Release date: Apr 30, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224901425

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Taking Up the Cross, and Redeeming the Body

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For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor.

1 Thessalonians 4:3-4, RSV2CE.

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Table of Contents

Copyright Page

Taking Up the Cross, and Redeeming the Body

Index

Introduction

Taking up the Cross

Fixing the Body

The Body in Christian Spirituality

The Spiritual Transformation of the Body

Divine image and Divine reality through Christ

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Index

Introduction

Taking up the Cross

Fixing the Body

The Body in Christian Spirituality

The Spiritual Transformation of the Body

Divine image and Divine reality through Christ

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Introduction

We are here in a tent waiting for our redemption. And this tent is our body. In this body, we are blind because our five senses deceive us at every turn, and our