Criticism of Xxxx Xxxx’s reading of scripture and the imago Dei Sample Clauses

Criticism of Xxxx Xxxx’s reading of scripture and the imago Dei. One critic of Xxxx Xxxx’s theological anthropology is Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx. His 2012 essay, ‘Nuptial Mysteries,’ criticizes the xxxx on the grounds of introducing novelty into the concept of the imago Dei, and owing to that novelty, excluding some categories of people from the concept.121 Much in Xxxxxxxx’x argument relies upon his reading of the Genesis creation stories and his handling of metaphor. His critical engagement with Xxxx Xxxx XX’s theology illuminates their differing methodologies as readers of scriptural text. 119 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, "Male and Female He Created Them: A Summary of the Teaching of Genesis Chapter One," Communio: International Catholic Review 20 (1993): 249. 120 Xxxx Xxxx most often uses the expression, ‘conjugal act.’ Xxxxxxxxx explains that the term is not a euphemism but is intended to indicate ‘sex in its full moral nature and goodness as a personal act in the determinate circumstances of conjugal life.’ Xxxxxxxxx, index: conjugal act. 121 Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx, "Nuptial Mysteries," in Faithful Reading: New Essays in Theology in Honour of Xxxxxx Xxxx, OP, ed. X. Xxxxxx, X. Xxxxx, and X. X'Xxxxxxxx (London: T&T Xxxxx, 2012). Xxxxxxxx says that the xxxx’x Theology of the Body amounted to an ‘anthropology of nuptiality.’122 While neither the term, nuptial mystery, nor the word, nuptial, appear in Xxxxxxxxx’x translation, the concept is central to Xxxx Xxxx’s seeing spousal union as a metaphoric sign for the unity and totality of divine revelation.123 Xxxxxxxx claims to share with Xxxxxx Xxxx a concern that the principle of nuptiality as applied to the imago Dei is a novelty that breaks with tradition.124 This is only true in part. Xxxx Xxxx’s comfort with, and appreciation of, the fullness of human bodiliness, including its sexual dimension, contrasts with some of the early church fathers, several of whom Xxxxxxxx cites in a footnote.125 Xxxxxxxx’x choice, though, is partial, as other early church theologians, such as Xxxxxx and Xxxxxxx xx Xxxxx saw licit sexual expression as analogical of the ecstatic mutual love within the Godhead.126 Later mystics, Xx Xxxxxxx xx Clairvaux and St Xxxx of the Cross, found the biblical nuptial trope of Israel-Church as the bride of Xxxxxx a rich resource for theological reflection. Xxxx Xxxx was not introducing a new principle of nuptiality but was more fully elaborating something already present within scripture and the tradition. Aside from the charge of introducing novelty to the concept of the imago Dei, ...