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Physicality & Spirituality Gnosticism

a 1st century heresy

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Physicality & Spirituality

14 The Word became flesh and

made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full

• f grace and truth.

john 1:14

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‘That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched—this we proclaim concerning the Word of life. 2 The life appeared; we have seen it and testify to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and has appeared to us. 3 We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

4 We write this to make our joy complete.

1 john 1:1-4

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‘Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

2 This is how you can recognize the

Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God...’

1 john 4:1-2

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The Body is Evil or Unimportant

Physicality & Spirituality Gnosticism

a 1st century heresy

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Physicality & Spirituality

‘In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.’

Genesis 1:1 31 God saw all that he had

made, and it was very good

Genesis 1:31

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Physicality & Spirituality

Grace Nature

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Grace

Nature

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Thomas Aquinas the will of man is fallen but the intellect was not

intellect becomes autonomous natural theology divorced from Scripture

Grace

Nature

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Giotto Cimabue

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Petrarch - the first to climb a mountain for the pleasure of it Nature is swallowing up grace

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Van Eyck

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Van Eyck

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Masaccio

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Filippo Lippi nature is eating up grace

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Fouquet grace is dead when nature is made autonomous it kills grace

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Friedrich Nietzsche

“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed

• him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers
• f all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of

all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?”

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Gabriel Vahanian

modern secular culture had lost all sense

• f the sacred, lacking any sacramental

meaning, no transcendental purpose or sense of providence. For the modern mind "God is dead". A transformed post- Christian and post-modern culture was needed to create a renewed experience of deity. Spirituality is back ‘En Vogue’ but...

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Nature & Grace under a truly biblical worldview

Physicality & Spirituality

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19 Do you not know that your bodies

are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20

Physicality & Spirituality

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“O God, you are my God, I seek you, my soul thirst for you, my flesh faints for you!”

Psalm 63:1

The Body

Pay attention to it, nurture it, care for it, listen to it, honor it - it is your avenue for experiencing Jesus!

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not to just glorify me - narcissism, but to glorify Jesus with my body !

Not just Getting in Shape

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19 Do you not know that your bodies are

temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your

• wn; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore

honor God with your bodies. - 1 Corinthians 6:19-20

My Body & Spiritual Formation

“Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. - Romans 12:1

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The Lord’s Table

Thomas Eakins The Crucifixion

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