Recovering The Body In The Teaching Of John Paul II
By MOST REV. JOSEPH STRICKLAND Part 2 In our first column on Pope St. John Paul II’s series of Wednesday catechetical teachings which are popularly referred to as the “Theology of the Body,” we noted that this treasure given to us by the late St. John Paul II represented a decided shift in theological anthropology. That is the area of theology which reflects upon the nature of the human person as created and re-created in Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Word.That shift can be characterized as a movement from finding a place for the human body in Christian theology to building a “theology of the body.” The former represented an effort to defend the role of the body, while the latter…Continue Reading