The first is
bodily life which is innate; that is, we exist without a choice or will.
It teaches us to honor the trajectory of
human bodily life from birth to death — from the dependence that marks our birth to the dependence that marks our aging and dying.
What is lost as our daily experience becomes
less bodily lived and more viewed as an image?
In erotic descriptions at once humorously profane and tactfully oblique, Lance evokes the sheer ecstasy, the virtual eternity, that he and Margot enjoyed
in bodily life together.
In its turn, this culmination of
bodily life transmits itself as an element of novelty throughout the avenues of the body.
We have often embraced asceticism, and we have certainly encouraged a negative attitude
towards bodily life in this natural world.
The Resurrection is the real indication of Christ's power over death and sin, of course, but also of His power over matter: matter is raised to new potentialities, new relationships, as shown by His Risen Body being able to pass through walls, no longer materially confined by time and space as before, an indication of our own
future bodily lives in the state called «heaven».
In his book Surprised by Hope, N.T. Wright notes, «The point of the resurrection... is that the
present bodily life is not valueless just because it will die... What you do with your body in the present matters because God has a great future in store for it.
If this argument is valid, it shows that mathematics is rooted
in bodily life and that the necessity in mathematical reasoning is rooted in man's spatiotemporal existence.
When our goal is simply to ward off death, to stay alive as long as possible, we miss an essential element in our humanity — the trajectory
of bodily life that begins in dependence and moves, at the end, once again toward dependence and death.
Economic phenomena point most obviously to
the bodily life of man.
The sudden and unprepared mention of «causal efficacy» and «presentational immediacy» in the discussion (lines 33b - 36a), combined with a second passage of the same sort a few lines further concerning the body and
bodily life (lines 36b.44), suggest that 339.33b - 44 were not part of the original discussion, and that they have been added later.
It is that view which (as it is thought) makes possible and seems to lend probability to the notion that the self, so understood, can continue to exist even when there is no body and when there are no further experiences of a sort appropriate to
bodily life.
These early theologians saw this as a work by which Christ was renewing creation, restoring
the bodily life through resurrection.
«Those who marry will have pain and grief in
this bodily life, and my aim is to spare you» (1 Cor.
There is no room for doubt as to what he means: God's people are promised a new type of bodily existence, the fulfillment and redemption of our present
bodily life.
Possessed of the Tao, he endures long; and to the end of
his bodily life, is exempt from all danger of decay.
Some of these deaths and births are more cataclysmic than others, but whether dramatic or gradual, the process of spiritual living is essentially the same as that of
bodily living.
The alternative path is one that he only sketches - a world in which medical research studies people without manipulating them, in which
bodily life is respected as inherently good, and every person has an equal claim on the right to live.
The love of the Hebrew for the earth and
this bodily life appears repeatedly in the prophetic writings.
In the presence of those paintings I've experienced what I can only call «looming» — the feeling that a powerful,
bodily life - force is encroaching on my space.