People are alone yet share deeply in this new embodiment. The nuances of life they took for granted are over, yet a longing for connection remains. Can body theology speak to this extraordinary circumstance? Body theology is the explicit theological recognition that personal embodiment, the shape of individual lives, form perception of the world while at the same time, cultural construction shapes how they live in their bodies. They only understand because they live within a matrix of embedded social perceptions. Body theology challenges the idea that the body is a site of spiritual corruption and reintegrates the human body as a fundamental location for revelation. This daily incarnation happens via the senses-sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch-through intuition in daily life, and in the interplay among their bodies in relationship with others and via cultural productions of power telling them who to be and how to act in embodiment. The body speaks a language that, while subjective and experiential, is not authored by individual direction. Body theology is crucial to help us understand the workings of the sacred, according to Catholic doctrine
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