feel uneasy about their bodies reduce the Christian faith to the pursuit of theological knowledge or the cultivation of their own subjective spirituality. Oddly, the focus on the body as the be-all and end-all of human life can result in the unhealthy embrace of a disembodied kind of spirituality. So neither of these approaches regards the human body highly enough. Both fail to appreciate it properly. Up to this point I have quite deliberately refrained from explaining how the human