Can We Create Ourselves?

“Humanist and Christian Theologies of the Body”

By Benedict M. Ashley, O.P.

1985

Part IV Chs. 12-14: A Process Theology of the Body

Chapter 12: The Spiritual Body

i: Glorious Wounds

1) The Dead Body of Christ

2) Why Did He Die?

3) Merit

ii: The Immortal Body (00:51:34)

1) Life After Death?

2) The Body Transformed

3) Guesswork

4) The Intermediate State

5) The Self-Condemned

Chapter 13: The Glorified Body (03:23:56)

i: The God Revealed in Jesus

1) Father, Son, and Spirit

2) Does the Christian God Exist?

ii: Persons Without Bodies (04:17:50)

1) Do Angels Exist?

2) Encountering the Angels

iii: The Eucharistic, Transformed World (05:07:39)

1) Eucharistic Transformation

2) The Trinity Centered Universe

3) The Transformed World

Chapter 14: The Godliness of Matter (06:31:32)

i: How Matter Mirrors God

ii: The Human Body: God’s Image (06:42:03)

iii: The Body is God’s Glory (06:45:05)