Stephen B. Kass, MA, in his chapter, Sports as a Metaphor for an Authentic Christian Life, develops a notion of incarnate spirituality through which sports can be an occasion for reflection on the identity of the human person as imago Dei and the formation of authentic human communities. Sports are an agent for the human person to understand their identity and destiny through the lens of Christian anthropology. There can be a dual tendency to view the human person through a material reductionism, which denies one’s supernatural essence, as well as a spiritual reductionism that devalues the body. Both the Second Vatican Council and the Catechism of the Catholic Church confront these biases and maintain the importance of a fully embodied spirituality. This is a spirituality deeply rooted in the incarnation and the human and divine natures of Jesus Christ. Sports and spirituality are intimately conjoined because they fortify the identity of the human person, created in both the imago Dei and in relation to others through a community of persons as expressed in Pope St. John Paul II’s Theology of the Body. Sports and athletics are also used as a metaphor in St. Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians to remind that early Christian community of the ultimate purpose and destiny of the human person, which is eternal life in heaven. The path of holiness is paved through the cardinal virtues of prudence, temperance, justice, and fortitude, which are the same virtues that need to be adopted and practiced by successful athletes.