{"id":70674,"date":"2026-02-19T00:49:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T23:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=70674"},"modified":"2026-02-19T00:49:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T23:49:23","slug":"when-spirit-and-body-find-one-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/when-spirit-and-body-find-one-another\/","title":{"rendered":"When Spirit and Body Find One Another"},"content":{"rendered":"Sexuality connects body and spirit in a unique way. But it is difficult to talk about it openly. Between digital omnipresence and spiritual repression, the intimacy and sanctity of this kind of encounter are being lost. A plea for an eroticism in which Eros, Philia, and Agape interact and encompass the whole person.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen we encounter two parents with a child bustling along the street, we instinctively know that at a completely different moment in their lives, the couple showed a transformed face: flushed, excited, desirous, bashful, beside themselves, perhaps also full of ambivalence, full of affection, infinitely tender, self-forgetful. We have all incarnated by way of two people sleeping together. Anyone who begins to read this text could not do so if a woman and a man had not had<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to keep reading? We're pleased to present our Summer 2026 offer, valid until August 8: <a href=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/subscribe\/\"> three months of free access <\/a> \u2013 cancel anytime.\r\n<br><br>\r\nIf you're already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log in here<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sexuality connects body and spirit in a unique way. But it is difficult to talk about it openly. Between digital omnipresence and spiritual repression, the intimacy and sanctity of this kind of encounter are being lost. A plea for an eroticism in which Eros, Philia, and Agape interact and encompass the whole person. When we encounter two parents with a child bustling along the street, we instinctively know that at a completely different moment in their lives, the couple showed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9164,"featured_media":70200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9147,8788],"tags":[11756,8798,11757],"class_list":["post-70674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-becoming-human","category-essay-en","tag-ausgabe-6-2026-en","tag-deepening","tag-english-issue-8-2026"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70674"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70692,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70674\/revisions\/70692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}