About a theology of the body

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Santiago Valencia López

Abstract

Qeology of the body has been part of a fundamental dimension of the scienti8c discourse on God and the Christian faith. Among its assumptions we
8nd Rahner´s Christology which dives into the mystery of the Incarnation of the Verb of God, putting it at the center of the reality in which we Christians
believe. But it was after Pope Wojtila and his writings when the study of this concept took a meaningful turn because it implied what it meant to go further
in theology. His actual questions are divided between re:ection on sexuality and the newness of the research on sport; to this last go the following lines of
this essay. To achieve that aim we need to open the theological panorama of Christian athletes who are wondering about the meaning of their practice. Qis
annotation is an approach to theology of the body following a bibliographical tracking to define some ways to develop this issue today.

Keywords:
Incarnation Christology Theology of the body Karl Rahner John Paul II

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Author Biography

Santiago Valencia López, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana

Licenciado en Educación Religiosa; candidato a Magíster en Teología por la Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana; actualmente es profesor de cátedra de la Escuela de Teología, Filosofía y Humanidades, pasante investigador del Grupo Religión y Cultura Categoría “B” Colciencias.