We reject any monism of spirit or Gnosticism that makes the world to be a mistake, without positive role in the plan of creation and salvation. We reject a monism of matter, any immanentzing materialism that denies the world its transcendent source and its transcendent destiny. Any doctrine, then, which drives a wedge between earth and heaven, denying the essential and intimate connection between them to which the Incarnation gives refulgent witness, must be spurned by the children of the Gospel. The ineluctable bedrock and life-giving fountain of theology is the fact of the Incarnation, that heaven met earth for our sake. The Christian confession is the confession of God become man. For this reason believers must test everything and reject what is not good and this is applicable to the philosophy of embodiment as it is to anything else, perhaps especially so, because it touches the heart of Christian faith both as it is believed and as it is lived. But very often man does, in fact, conceive ideas which are not compatible with the message of salvation. It is willing to sanction the creativity of human thought and its products, as long as it does not find these in conflict with the gospel. And yet this believing body finds itself in a world of diverse creeds, some of which it finds, after reflection, to be incompatible with its proclamation. What does it mean, for a Christian, to be in the body?Ĭhrist did not come to this world to form a school of philosophy but a body of salvation.
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