MORAL RESPONSABILITY ON BODY, NOWDAYS. THEOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS
MORAL RESPONSABILITY ON BODY, NOWDAYS. THEOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this study is to present the principles on which the moral responsibility for the body is based from an Eastern theological perspective. The idea that the man is responsible for the redeeming works of each divine Person on his life and especially on his body is highlighted. Afterwards, there are several ways in which the responsibility can be fulfilled. The moral principles that guide man’s responsibility in relation to his body are the following: moral purity, the attainment of holiness and the possibility of being deified. These are the principles the text tries to highlight in order to counterbalance the permissive and, unilaterally, hedonist principles that distort the contemporary responsibility towards the body. Even if the moral theological principles do not refer directly to it, are also applicable in the Bioethics area as it states that the purpose of the body is not to undergo any alteration by all means of its biological form, but it aims its spiritual transfiguration, through the action of the divine grace.

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