The modern age has furthered the interior fracture women sense between themselves and their bodies. Against this fracture, we can insist that body’s materiality serves a purpose: the body expresses the person. The weight of the body expresses a truth that we might like to forget, namely, that we are made for love and fruitfulness. Because we are in the image of God, this truth about ourselves is a pale echo of who God is: “he first loved us” (I John 4:19).
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