Loci 2024: Reclaiming a Theology of the Body

Our Flesh, the Flesh of Christ, and What It All Means
Contemporary theologians and philosophers have said that the defining issue of our time is anthropology—the question of what it means to be human. Both in society and in the church, there is confusion about the human being and the body. A faulty understanding of anthropology bleeds over into everything else. From questions of sexuality and gender, technology and transhumanism, life issues and what we do with the dead, all of them circle around the question of the personal body. From the beginning, the church has faced challenges to understanding the body properly. Such perennial misunderstandings of the body are on full display today and require us to reclaim a biblical theology of the body, grounded in Christ, who took on flesh and inaugurates a new body paradigm and incorporates us into its very pattern. Join us this year as we dig into the wonders of the body and of Christ’s body, using John Kleinig’s book Wonderfully Made: A Protestant Theology of the Body as our guide.