bodiliness

Using the development of Christian thinking about slavery as an example, Dr Williams explores how the notion of bodiliness could be a key to a deeper rooting of our notion of inalienable human rights and how my rights and yours are inextricably linked: 'my liberty not to be silenced, not to have my body reduced to someone else's instrument, is nourished by the equal liberty of the other not to be silenced.'

Archbishop - Religious Faith and Human Rights 2008

Using the development of Christian thinking about slavery as an example, Dr Williams explores how the notion of bodiliness could be a key to a deeper rooting of our notion of inalienable human rights and how my rights and yours are inextricably linked: 'my liberty not to be silenced, not to have my body reduced to someone else's instrument, is nourished by the equal liberty of the other not to be silenced.'

Archbishop - Religious Faith and Human Rights 2008

A poet bent upon greatness through a soaring imagination has every right to fear the implications of such bodiliness since through the body the poet may be led astray and his poetry may never cohere, never unify, and never satisfy common sense and good taste.

Wandering in the Landscape with Wordsworth and Deleuze 2008

I wanted to reveal the humanity of faith, of which eros is a part; the "yes" of man to his bodiliness created by God, a "yes" that in an indissoluble matrimony between man and woman finds its form rooted in creation.

Paradiso, St Bernard of Clairvaux and Deus Caritas Est 2009

Two other sources of “otherness” besides bodiliness underlie the limitations on perceptual knowledge.

Cusanus, Nicolaus [Nicolas of Cusa] Miller, Clyde Lee 2009

The apparent exaltation of the body can quickly turn into a hatred of bodiliness.

Notes for Noting and Links for Thinking 2006

There are of course languages that are remote from our bodiliness – eg maths and logic – but for our purposes, in religion especially, we need to be reminded of what actually happens when religious language is used.

Archive 2005-08-01 Sam Norton 2005

There are of course languages that are remote from our bodiliness – eg maths and logic – but for our purposes, in religion especially, we need to be reminded of what actually happens when religious language is used.

The religion of metaphysics Sam Norton 2005

This bodiliness is far reaching in its scope: ‘the way in which animals are similar to and different from one another and in relation to man, the phenomena of death, birth and sexual life, in short, everything we observe around us, year in and year out’ .

The religion of metaphysics Sam Norton 2005

This bodiliness is far reaching in its scope: ‘the way in which animals are similar to and different from one another and in relation to man, the phenomena of death, birth and sexual life, in short, everything we observe around us, year in and year out’ .

Archive 2005-08-01 Sam Norton 2005