Deleuze, Balthasar, and John Paul II on the Aesthetics of the Body

2020 ◽  
Vol 81 (3) ◽  
pp. 649-670
Author(s):  
Angela Franks
Keyword(s):  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
The Body ◽  
Theological Aesthetics ◽  
John Paul Ii ◽  
Theology Of The Body

Is the body a grid or a window? For Gilles Deleuze, as for most post-structuralists, the body does not express the person but rather functions as a surface upon which desire writes. Deleuze’s aesthetics of the surface echoes the inchoate convictions of transgenderism. In contrast, for classical Christian aesthetics, the beauty of the surface is an expression of depth. Hans Urs von Balthasar’s theological aesthetics is analyzed along John Paul II’s theology of the body, in which the body expresses the person. I close with a trinitarian analogy of the body.

THE Theology of the Body

2018 ◽  
pp. 862-876
Author(s):  
José Granados
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
The Body ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
The Core ◽  
John Paul Ii ◽  
Theology Of The Body ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Vision Of God

This chapter outlines and defends the theology of the body that has been developed following the famous series of Wednesday catecheses offered by Pope St John Paul II. The chapter emphasizes three themes at the heart of the Theology of the Body. First, a vision, following Gaudium et Spes 22 that places Christ and the Incarnation at the core of the interpretation of humanity and society. Second, a vision of the human body that makes it possible to describe human existence in the light of love and to recover the theological significance of the notion of ‘experience’. Third, a corresponding anthropology of love that offers the key to the Christian vision of God, humanity, and the world; this anthropology of love is centred in the family relationships, as the privileged place where God reveals himself.

scholarly journals The Relationship Between Male/Female Identities Along the Biblical-Christian Tradition: Guidelines for Today’s Educations

2019 ◽  
pp. 63-72
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Mari
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
The Body ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
John Paul Ii ◽  
Theology Of The Body ◽  
Theological Foundation ◽  
The Relationship

The article presents anthropological, philosophical and theological foundation of the relationship between male/female identities in the light of the biblical-christian tradition. The first part introduces the concept of the primary reciprocity in Gen 1-2 focusing on affinity and difference between man and woman as well as man and woman’s reciprocal essentiality. The second part pertains to male/female reciprocity according to the “theology of the body” by John Paul II which includes a broad notion of freedom. Lastly, the article describes educational tasks including the nuptiality of human body with regards to Christian personalization. Proposed pedagogical vision involves promoting male and female identities according to their difference and to their common dignity.

scholarly journals Wizja miłości w odnalezionym młodzieńczym utworze Karola Wojtyły Wciąż jestem na tym samym brzegu

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (1 Zeszyt specjalny) ◽  
pp. 65-78
Author(s):  
Anna Karoń-Ostrowska
Keyword(s):  
Critical Edition ◽  
Research Work ◽  
The Body ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
John Paul Ii ◽  
Internal Conflicts ◽  
Theology Of The Body

The unknown piece entitled ‘Here I am, still on this bank’ was discovered during research work on the critical edition of the literary works of Karol Wojtyła / John Paul II in the Archive of the Metropolitan Curia in Cracow in late 2016. The text was created most likely between February 1941 (the date of Wojtyła’s father’s death), and October 1942, when young Karol, a cleric of the clandestine Cracovian Archdiocese Seminary, decided to take up underground studies at the Jagiellonian University’s Theological Department. It is the only piece among Karol Wojtyła’s works to take on the theme of the internal conflicts of the protagonist between love for a woman and a betrothed’s love for God. We can find here the basic foundations of the concept of love, which the Pope would later develop in his philosophy (Love and Responsibility), theology (Theology of the Body) and literary works (e.g. the mystical poems and plays In front of the Jeweller’s Shop and The Radiance of Fatherhood).

scholarly journals Pierwszy widzący (O części II Tryptyku rzymskiego – rozpoznania wstępne)

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (1 Zeszyt specjalny) ◽  
pp. 95-104
Author(s):  
Bernadetta Kuczera-Chachulska
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
John Paul Ii ◽  
Theology Of The Body

The problem of “seeing” in the writings of John Paul II has not yet been examined separately. This motif was discerned in the Triptych due to the distinctiveness of its presence. The contexts of, for example, the Pope’s Letter to Artists and the Areopagus sermon were useful. The problem of “seeing” (being, as presented in the Triptych, the first attribute of the Creator) is linked to the question of John Paul II’s understanding of art, as well as his theology of the body. It is at the very centre of the theological and philosophical (aesthetic) thoughts of this Pope and Thinker.

scholarly journals Man in the “Splendour of Divinity.” The Hagiological Interpretation of “spousal love” in line with John Paul II’s Theology of the Body

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-102
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Parzych-Blakiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
The Body ◽  
Theological Interpretation ◽  
John Paul Ii ◽  
Theology Of The Body ◽  
Philosophical Writings

The article presents the theological interpretation of the phenomenon of spousal love in terms of examining its correlations with the call to holiness. This study belongs to the field of hagiological research aiming at developing a new concept that defines arguments in the Church’s strategy concerning the defence of every human life. The analysis concerns the statements and philosophical writings of Karol Wojtyła and then John Paul II on spousal love and the dependence of the person and his actions on the Truth and Good. The Christological-soteriological aspect of spousal love as conditioning the sanctification of the person has been indicated. The axiological conditions related to the Christological assumption have been termed as “the Splendour of Divinity,” identifying it with the space of the salvific influence on a person, sanctified by Christ’s spousal love and called to develop an ethos based on this love.

scholarly journals „Nowy feminizm” Jana Pawła II i jego prekursorki

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (1 Zeszyt specjalny) ◽  
pp. 327-344
Author(s):  
Monika Kulesza
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Edith Stein ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
John Paul Ii ◽  
Theology Of The Body

The aim of the considerations incorporated into this paper is to present anew the meaning of the term “new feminism,” which John Paul II introduced into philosophical and theological terminology. Since the Pope did not fully clarify the meaning of the term, it is necessary to recall the contexts of John Paul II’s teachings that shed more light on the term, and especially to invoke those papal teachings related to the theology of marriage and family, and the theology of the body. This article also evokes and discusses those areas of papal teaching and speeches in which John Paul II appealed to women to become promoters of this new feminism. The second part of the work is devoted to those women who inspired or could have inspired John Paul II in the work of forming a new feminism. Amongst them, Saint Edith Stein and Blessed Marcelina Darowska stand out, both fully deserving the name of the precursors of Catholic feminism.

Mobilization of the Planet from the Spirit of Self-Intensification

2006 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 36-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Sloterdijk
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Body Movement ◽  
The Body ◽  
Felix Guattari ◽  
Peter Sloterdijk ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Relationship

The articles in this first installment of a series on choreography that considers the relationship between philosophy and dance interrogate conceptions of the body, movement, and language. Translated for the first time into English, the selection by José Gil reads the dancing body as paradoxical through the writings of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari; and the chapter by Peter Sloterdijk examines modernity's impulse toward movement and posits a critical theory of mobilization. An interview with choreographer Hooman Sharifi accompanies a meditation on his recent performance.

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