John Paul II's Theology Of The Body For Beginners

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One of the most perplexing things that mankind believes to wisely comprehend is how bodies work; but to accomplish a greater understanding, the reading of the book “Theology of the Body for Beginners”, should be considered. Through John Paul II’s Wednesday delivers, from 1979 to 1984; Christopher West, began a study on the clarification of the vision that would soon be described as “one of the boldest reconfigurations of the Catholic theology in centuries” (West, Christopher, 1), according to the theologian George Weigel. As time has passed, certain things remained almost ‘untouched’ by the Church, but what Pope John Paul II questioned himself created quite a ‘buzz’ between believers. The incomplete knowledge of ‘what it means to be human’ …show more content…
The Pope could not be more unhappy with the heresy, or more specifically saying; the ‘Manichaeism’, “an unconcealed false teaching condemned by the Church”; being preached on matter of the belief of each individual’s goodness within their spirit and the absence of it in their bodies. But what John Paul II really faced was the foul attempt to see how valuable body and sex really are and the commonly believed problem of the overvalues of …show more content…
20, 1980). Although people may receive many kinds of signs throughout their lives, ‘The Divine Mystery’, will always be hidden in God. But what truly connects people’s embodied spirits to God is the outcome of the creator’s plan: to create based on His image, with His love as the main purpose. The ‘innermost secret’ of this creator’s reasoning to the existence of human beings is well summarized by the Catechism as it says that “God himself is an eternal exchange of love, Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit, and he has destined us to share that exchange” (221); and by the incontestable truth that love is an unstoppable expanding communion within itself. Based on God’s desire for people to deliberately love him; it is of an easier comprehension of mankind’s destiny to share in that