Philosophic underpinning of ‘language of the body’. The philosophic underpinning for his papal reflections upon language as action had been published years earlier when writing in academic capacity as Karol Wojtyła. His philosophic contribution to phenomenology, The Acting Person,193 sought to understand the person for his own sake through systematic analysis of the relation between person and action. Motivated to and female. 191 Ibid., 102. The complete human genome was sequenced by 2001. Note human, not male 192 Daphna Joel, "Genetic-Gonadal-Genitals Sex (3g-Sex) and the Misconception of Brain and Gender, or, Why 3g-Males and 3g-Females Have Intersex Brain and Intersex Gender," Biology of Sex Differences 3, no. 1 (2012). Similarly, John Paul II cautions against a preference for the concrete and particular that rejects the notion of the universal, and in so doing, rejects the universality of the faith content of the church. John Paul II, Fides Et Ratio, §69, 193 Karol Cardinal Wojtyla, The Acting Person, trans. Andrzej Potocki. Revised ed. in collaboration with Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Analecta Husserliana, vol. 10 (Dordrecht; Boston; London: D. Reidel Publishing, 1979). analyse the cognitive process whereby man experiences himself both as subject (‘I’) and object (‘the me that I have to face’), he considers how man understands himself through cognitively apprehending that he acts; that he is an ‘acting person.’ In his actions, man always experiences himself because: ‘Man’s experience of anything outside of himself is always associated with the experience of himself, and he never experiences anything external without having at the same time the experience of himself.’194 The relation between person and action is experienced and it is then able to be a subject of reflection.195 Man, that is to say, is both the originator of his own action, (where ‘action’ is both act and process),196 and, cognizant of himself as actor, an object for his own interpretation. Correct interpretation can lead to understanding; an event in which the person transcends himself. John Paul’s term, ‘language of the body,’ is a metaphor where ‘words spoken’ encompasses actions, gestures and deeds. Christian understanding is that consistency in personal intention and praxis, and their coherence with scriptural divine commands, orients the person towards God. Such a person’s actions constitute a type of worship. Christian liturgical devotion and practice, more especially within the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox traditions, acknowle...
