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    STUDIA BIOETHICA - Issue no. 2 / 2013  
         
  Article:   THE BODY OF DEATH AND THAT OF RESURRECTION – A BIBLICAL AND BIOETHICAL PERSPECTIVE / TRUPUL MORȚII ȘI AL SLAVEI – PERSPECTIVĂ BIBLICĂ ȘI BIOETICĂ.

Authors:  STELIAN PAȘCA-TUȘA. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  The Body of Death and That of Resurrection – a Biblical and Bioethical Perspective. In this study I wish to address the issue of the human body seen in two of the extreme moments of its existence – death and resurrection – which has an actual applicability in the field of bioethics: beginning by substantiating my approach with old testamentary references, I emphasised the particular aspects of the human body in its paradisiacal state, in that following the fall and in that restored by Christ – one that had in fact been foreshadowed and foretold in the prophecies. The aim is to underline that the body which is subjected to death and decay and the body which is meant to resurrect are one and the same. The scriptural perspective comes as an alternative to the adulterated conception of the body promoted by the de-personalised medicine of the consumerist society and by the pornographic industry. The rehabilitation of the body’s intrinsic value will be achieved only when we will fully grasp the extraordinary quality it gained by the incarnation of Christ. The conclusions of this study offer a means of potentially regaining the body’s dignity which is usually lost in the mundane surrounding reality.

Key-words: body, resurrection, garments of skin, bioethics, person, Christ, image, resemblance, Holy Fathers

 
         
     
         
         
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