God's Love of the Human Body
“Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?” -1 Corinthians 3:16 Recently, I came across some passages in the writings of St. Symeon the New Theologian where he used the occasion of hymn writing to take jabs at his theological opponents. Because, you know, that will show 'em. He may have been onto something, though. Can you imagine how much more fun the debate between John Piper and N.T. Wright would’ve been had they taken all of their frustration out on each other through aggressive hymn writing? It would have been like an epic churchy rap battle of the ages. Wright would have written a hymn called, “O Christian hedonist, the one around whom the whole galaxy revolves.” Piper would have written one called, “N.T. Wright? More like N.T. Wrong because, you know, he doesn’t understand the New Testament very good.” Even though this hypothetical scenario would have been a tad bit ridiculous (awesom...