This study is approximately summerized as follows: Plato, one of the famous Greek philosophers, was in the dualistic attitude that body is an evil thing and is subordinate to soul, while Aristotle had the monistic standpoint that a human being is a total being, and body and soul are not separable. Another philosopher, Democrit thought that since a human being is but a phenomenon in a subuniverse and has no costive meaning. In the Christian theory body is a unified and collective system and body is an element necessary to distianity stoicism was the obstacle to the bodily activities, but after the Reformation Puritans put a great emphasis on labor and sports activities were, though limitedly, popular. Nowadays various sports and bodily recreation are utilized for the purpose of promoting the missionary work and human relationship.