Beauty Surgery and the Christian Conscience
Beauty Surgery and the Christian Conscience

Summary/Abstract: Humankind was always, during its existence, in a process of transformation, and one of his main purposes concerns its beauty and health. Latins said “mens sana in corpore sano” encouraging beauty care and care about hygiene. Later in history, people discovered different ways of improving the way they look and to repair different deficiencies of their bodies. Even in the ancient world people were able to accomplish different surgical procedures on human body that we use even today, for example rhinoplasty. But, when technology was able to provide even procedures that could change basically the shape of the body, these preoccupations became a part of medicine known as plastic surgery. Theology has to express its opinion about the legitimacy of these procedures when it says that God created people to live in connection to the nature and that our life is integrated in a larger existence that this short time we spend on Earth. And, especially, that the purpose of existence is to achieve the Holy Spirit in full communion with our Creator. In this article we try to see how far we can use medical achievements and which procedures correspond to Christianity and what we shouldn’t use only because it’s possible to be done.

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