Christianity agrees with the postmodernist critique of the Enlightenment’s notion of the disembodied consciousness. The Bible teaches that God created humans as embodied beings, biologically connected to families, living in particular nations at particular periods in history. We are rooted in the physical, material world—and that is not a negative limitation that must be transcended. On the contrary, Genesis states repeatedly that the material creation is intrinsically good: “And God saw that it was good.” In the book of Acts, Paul even teaches that our physical, social, and historical
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