El desprecio por el cuerpo
Luis Diego Cascante
Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad de Costa Rica May 21, 2026 DOI: 10.15517/revfil.2026.1637 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Historical analysis Peer reviewed |
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| Key points | Argues that post-Tridentine theological regulation made the body an ideologically objectionable space and that convents became sites for an obliquely developed religious anthropology. Contends that the mystical spirituality of Teresa of Jesús and Juan de la Cruz produced a 'parsimonious androgygy' concerning both the human body and divinity, characterizing relationships with divinity outside the institutionalized conceptions of the Ecclesial Magisterium, particularly its contempt for the body. |
Abstract
Between the 16th and 17th centuries, after the Council of Trent (1545-1563), the theological regulation mechanisms were joined to politics and made the body an ideologically objectionable space, so convents were the space for friars and nuns, acquire knowledge and, obliquely, develop an anthropology from religious life, but which becomes a spirituality (mystical) that leads to a parsimonious androgygy (in Teresa of Jesús and Juan de la Cruz) with respect to the human body and with respect to divinity, especially by characterizing relationships with divinity outside of the institutionalized conceptions of the Ecclesial Magisterium in relation to the roles of corporeality, in particular with contempt for the body.