What About the Body?

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

Spirituality, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality:christianity

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🗓️ 11 November 2001

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

The Christian attitude toward the body lies beyond the extremes of hedonism (taking the body too seriously) and puritanism (taking it not seriously enough). Christians are "eschatologically detached" from their bodies here below, precisely because they expect transfigured bodies in the age to come. We can see this Biblical attitude on display in both the Old Testament and the Gospels.

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0:00.0	This is Cardinal Francis George, and I invite you to join me for the next few minutes to
0:04.6	reflect with Father Robert Barron on the Word of God, which is the Word on Fire.
0:11.1	Father Barron will challenge us to open our hearts to the Word on Fire, which is God's
0:15.5	Word of Love for each of us.
0:17.8	If our hearts are open, the Lord can change and transform us, so that we might speak with
0:22.8	love about the one who is love.
0:26.1	The Archdiocese of Chicago through the generosity of Sacred Heart Parishing Winnetka now presents
0:31.0	the Word on Fire.
0:33.0	Peace be with you.
0:35.3	Friends our readings today are interesting ones, they're strange and puzzling.
0:39.8	They have to do, I think, with the Christian attitude toward the body.
0:44.8	It's a thing we probably don't talk about enough, but it is all through the Bible.
0:50.7	And the readings today are especially good, I think, at naming this very distinctive biblical
0:55.6	understanding of the body.
0:58.3	I think the biblical position is really midway between, or if you will, beyond, two great
1:03.8	extremes.
1:06.3	The one extreme is called hedonism, or materialism.
1:10.6	The view that the body and its pleasures are everything.
1:16.2	They are the ultimate horizon in my life, that I give pleasure to my body, that I cherish
1:21.2	my body, I cling to its values and so on.
1:24.4	Its hedonism, materialism.
1:26.9	The other extreme, and you'll find it all over the history of religion and philosophy,
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