#528: Original Innocence and the Body's Meaning

The value of a clean conscience for a theology of the body.

Why do we have bodies that are capable of generating new life? Things did not have to be the way they are: we might have been created as angels whose formal sexlessness makes them incapable of generation (at least on most accounts of angels). Fundamentally, we have the bodies we have because of—love. Beneath and behind our experience of the body lies th…