We’ve had quite a number of folks commenting in on episode 299, my interview with Dr. Jerry Wierwille, called “Does the Bible Support Abortion“.  That episode was very limited to focusing on a couple of texts relevant to building a Christian perspective on abortion.  Essentially, we concluded, as on several previous episodes, that abortion-on-demand doesn’t fit with the biblical worldview.  However, this is just one aspect of what the bible teaches about bodies.  In fact there is much more to say on the subject.  So I thought it would be good this week to play out my presentation from a theological conference last year called, “Biblical Somatology.”

My aim for this research project was to mine the scriptures for information on the body, both how we should think about our bodies as well as the boundaries God has placed on what we should and shouldn’t do with our bodies.  Then by contrasting the biblical approach with our own social issues related to bodies and sexuality, we can glimpse just a small bit of how genius God’s boundaries are as well as how they unleash human flourishing.

Now there is also a video version of this talk you can access as well as a much more comprehensive paper with all the references and footnotes in it.  So I encourage you to check those out if you are interested.

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