“…Addressing themes of embodiment and theological dichotomies (an insufficient epistemology that underplays the complexity of things) in the modern discourse on sports, a number of scholars have presented frameworks for thinking about sport rooted in holistic Judea-Christian and Pauline theology (Barrajón, 2012;White, 2012b;Kretchmar, 2011;Scarpa and Carraro, 2011;Hochstetler, Hopsicker and Kretchmar, 2008;Twietmeyer, 2009Twietmeyer, , 2008Watson, 2007a;also see, Thaden, 2003). The Thomist scholar, Pieper (1965Pieper ( , 1948Pieper ( /1998 has been arguably the most important thinker from the Catholic community with regards to orthodox theological understandings of leisure, play, work and recreation.…”