Bodies, living and dead, play an immense role in Christianity. The body and the relics of bodies are actually able to become places where one can have direct contact with God, but only if there are sanctified (Nachaj, Lecture 12). There are many examples of ways to sanctification including but not limited to, celibacy, poverty, martyrdom, preaching and spreading the gospel, leading communities through teachings, and performing miracles (Nachaj, Lecture 12). Many of these important practices and ways
to Apophatic Spirituality. What do we mean by spirituality? It’s difficult to give a concise definition but Christian spirituality can be broadly seen as a journey, searching out God and how He is at work in our lives, it’s a journey that involves engaging our personalities, our world view and our religion. Within Christian spirituality there are many pathways or spiritual traditions, for example, Franciscan, Ignatian or our own Anglican spirituality inherited from both the Catholic and Reformation
When we compare the novel, A Clockwork Orange, with the Age that the novel was written in, we find that Anthony Burgess didn’t focus the role of the women in A Clockwork Orange on the role of women in the era that he wrote the novel because the novel is a futuristic novel. During that era there were women like Mary Quant that contributed to the fact that they want women to have a better life. Mary fought for the women to have thoughts of their own and to do what they want to do and not what the
theology emerged from the Biblical witness, even though scripture offers no doctrine of the Trinity itself. Even more so, the development of the doctrine of the Trinity grew from the early church’s worship, witness and corporate experience. When faced with a mystery, heresies can’t help but emerge. Docetism and Arianism, Adoptionism and Monarchianism, Nestorianism and Monophysitism are just a few of the heresies that emerged in attempts to explain away the mystery. And yet, theologians from the second