Posted on 10/15/2024 8:05:52 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
The sexual revolution involved an increase in casual attitudes toward the meaning of one’s body and sexuality. With the new availability of contraception, people were able to engage in sexual activity for pleasure without the potential consequence of pregnancy. Psychologist Wilhelm Reich believed that a casual attitude toward sex would provide more happiness for people than Catholic limitations on sexuality. In response to this, from the late 1970s to the early 1980s, Pope Saint John Paul II gave a series of talks that proclaimed the goodness of the body. The pope presented the idea that sex was meant to be a radical self-gift of two persons to each other, as opposed to merely a pleasurable, casual activity.1 Given the goodness of human sexuality, and the fact that sexual activity is experienced through the body, it follows that the human body is unequivocally good. John Paul II thus offered an account of the goodness of human sexuality and the body from a Catholic theological perspective.2
According to John Paul II, when the man sees the woman for the first time and exclaims, “this one, at last, is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh,”3 the man is saying that through the woman’s body, he recognizes her humanity. In other words, the body reveals the person.4 Since men and women are made in the image and likeness of God, which means that they are made to be like God, it follows that men’s and women’s bodies reveal not only realities about their personhood, but about God Himself.5
The differences between men’s and women’s bodies necessarily reveal that there are differences between manhood and womanhood, and that God reveals different things about Himself through each...=This thesis will focus specifically on the sacramental meaning of a woman’s body.
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On my tablet, your links are dead. I can get other thread links to work, so I don’t think it’s my device.
Christopher West once endorsed anal sex—which killed Farah Fawcett Major with painful rectal cancer after on 2 exposure incidents.
Alice von Hildebrand vigorously opposed West.
It works on my iPad.
Switched to my iPhone and it worked fine. Thanks.
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