The simple answer is that he is using the term broadly here to refer to 'ways of perceiving things,' where by 'things' he means all the various substances that exist — God, bodies, the self, and other minds.
And, dude, you could end up with real honest-to-god body armor.
A variation on the mind-body problem -- God-body, in this case, or art-body -- the question goes beyond the religious or artistic.
Shintai, (Japanese: "god-body"), in the Shintō religion of Japan, manifestation of the deity (kami), its symbol, or an object of worship in which it resides; also referred to as mitama-shiro ("the material object in which the divine soul resides").
Egyptian writings describe the gods' bodies in detail.
I'm sure we'd also have God-bodies that never got tired.
These statues, generally less than life-size, were made of the same precious materials that were said to form the gods' bodies.
"You must not use your God-given body for killing God's creatures, whether they be human, animals, or whatever," the Yajur Veda says (12.32).
The primary objection to the world as God's body is the substantialistic implications of the term "body" that lead either to an ontological separation between the world and God or to a loss of identity for God or the world.
Because bodies depend upon souls for their existence, and the world is God's body, the world depends upon God for its being as well as for its qualities.
All Jews, and their descendants for all time,... are guilty.... Jews desecrate God's body, the host.
