London: Lepus Books, 1979 Fine Condition Throughout its history the Church has been attacked for its allegedly negative and contemptuous attitude towards the human body, and for resisting a sane and balanced approach to the physical. Dr. Bottomley’s book breaks new ground by exploring the origins and changing attitudes of the Christian tradition against partial, sectarian and transitional influences. But all teaching can conform to and be changed by the circumstances of its presentation, and so Dr. Bottomley has also traced the background of Jewish tradition (and the Graeco-Roman setting) from which the Christian ethic arose.