Letters to the editor: The mystery of the deified body

This letter addressed to Olivier Clément, published in the readers' correspondence section, responds to a previous issue devoted to the Ascension. Its author, R. R. Folkestone, develops a reflection on what he considers a major gap in contemporary Christian theology: the lack of understanding of the human body in its relationship to the risen and glorified body of Christ. Starting from an observation about the physical and psychic degeneration of modern man, he proposes an anthropological reading of deification: the coming mutation of humanity would reside in a conscious integration of instinctive and subconscious life, accomplished in Christ, the New Adam. The theological contribution of this text lies in its questioning of the implicit contempt for the risen body within Christianity itself, presented as a central obstacle to faith and to the understanding of the new creation.