Theology of the Body, etc.
Suspicious of the body; the body is unavoidably fraught with temptation
Christ came to retrieve God's original intention for our lives.
What is what Christ came into the world to do?
To develop aggressiveness in a disciplined way; fight for an ideal; for God.
What is the warrior archetype?
Nahash
Dragon, large venemous creature
Meaning of sexual difference, dif-ferre
What is to carry the same thing to another place (aka, the "second I")?
Worship of the body, yet rejecting it as it declines into illness and death
What is the modernistic view of the body?
Man is alone before God. We are set apart from the animals for a unique relationship with God.
What is the 1st meaning of Original Solitude?
What is symbolic?
Adam and Eve disobey when they were given the duty/responsibility to do otherwise
What is the inversion of norms (the general theme of Gen 3)?
Original Sanctuary or "temple of God"
What is Eden?
Our bodies are not "meaningless mechanisms" but means of expression in the language of love.
What is JPII's view of the body, a true appreciation of the human body?
The moment of self-gift, and the two become one flesh (the body is made for love).
What is Original Unity (also the nuptial meaning of the body)?
Extraordinary wisdom and prophetic gifts (St. Catherine of Siena)
What is the wise woman archetype?
Announces a redeemer
What is the protoevangelium?
Fast, pray and give alms.
What are the remedies for each temptation?
Adam, ish, and ishah
What are the Hebrew words for man, male and female?
To see the other as God does (with the peace of the interior gaze).
What is Original Nakedness?
From Original Nakedness we realize that the human body is...
What is free?
Joy can come from suffering (God brings good out of evil)
What is what God is teaching Adam and Eve regarding their punishments?
Evolutionism
The breakdown of marriage and families today.
Why JPII wrote the Theology of the Body?
The body speaks truth (the body is made to communicate truth).
What is the language of the body?
"Mother Bear"
What is the defender archetype?
Cite Gen 3: 15 from memory
"I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your offspring and hers...he shall crush your head while you strike at his heel."
He did nothing
What is the 3rd option of Adam in the Garden?