T e Body Sacred Rhy t ms Saturday, February 1, 14
Physicality & Spirituality Gnosticism a 1st century heresy Saturday, February 1, 14
Physicality & Spirituality 14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. john 1:14 Saturday, February 1, 14
‘That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched—this we proclaim concerning the Word of life. 2 The life appeared; we have seen it and testify to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and has appeared to us. 3 We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ. 4 We write this to make our joy complete. 1 john 1:1-4 Saturday, February 1, 14
‘Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God...’ 1 john 4:1-2 Saturday, February 1, 14
Physicality & Spirituality Gnosticism a 1st century heresy The Body is Evil or Unimportant Saturday, February 1, 14
Physicality & Spirituality ‘In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.’ Genesis 1:1 31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good Genesis 1:31 Saturday, February 1, 14
Physicality & Spirituality Grace Nature Saturday, February 1, 14
Grace Nature Saturday, February 1, 14
Grace Thomas Aquinas Nature the will of man is fallen but the intellect was not intellect becomes autonomous natural theology divorced from Scripture Saturday, February 1, 14
Cimabue Giotto Saturday, February 1, 14
Petrarch - the first to climb a mountain for the pleasure of it Nature is swallowing up grace Saturday, February 1, 14
Van Eyck Saturday, February 1, 14
Van Eyck Saturday, February 1, 14
Masaccio Saturday, February 1, 14
Filippo Lippi nature is eating up grace Saturday, February 1, 14
Fouquet grace is dead when nature is made autonomous it kills grace Saturday, February 1, 14
Friedrich Nietzsche “God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?” Saturday, February 1, 14
Gabriel Vahanian modern secular culture had lost all sense of the sacred, lacking any sacramental meaning, no transcendental purpose or sense of providence. For the modern mind "God is dead". A transformed post- Christian and post-modern culture was needed to create a renewed experience of deity. Spirituality is back ‘En Vogue’ but... Saturday, February 1, 14
Physicality & Spirituality Nature & Grace under a truly biblical worldview Saturday, February 1, 14
Physicality & Spirituality 19 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies. 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 Saturday, February 1, 14
The Body Pay attention to it, nurture it, care for it, listen to it, honor it - it is your avenue for experiencing Jesus! “O God, you are my God, I seek you, my soul thirst for you, my flesh faints for you!” Psalm 63:1 Saturday, February 1, 14
Not just Getting in Shape not to just glorify me - narcissism, but to glorify Jesus with my body ! Saturday, February 1, 14
My Body & Spiritual Formation 19 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies . - 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 “Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. - Romans 12:1 Saturday, February 1, 14
The Lord’s Table Thomas Eakins The Crucifixion Saturday, February 1, 14
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