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Theology of the Body:
Teachings of Pope John Paul II
Theology of the Body 13. Papal Documents - JP2TB89.HTM - A Deeper
Understanding of the Church and Marriage In his General Audience of 18 August 1982, the Holy Father continued his catechesis on theology of the body, looking more closely at the two-way analogy found in Ephesians 5, between the relationship of husband and wife and the relationship of Christ and His Church. MARRIAGE 15. Papal Documents - JP2TB27.HTM - A Fundamental
Disquiet in All Human Existence 67. Papal Documents - JP2TB35.HTM - Adultery
According to the Law and as Spoken by the Prophets In his General Audience of 20 August 1980, the Holy Father continued his catechesis on Theology of the Body. He examines the emphasis of the matrimonial law on the "procreative end of marriage," and of the prophets on the uniqueness of the spousal relationship between God and Israel, contrary to the prevailing polygamy. ONANISM NUDITY COVENANT 68. Papal Documents - JP2TB36.HTM - Adultery: A
Breakdown of the Personal Covenant In his General Audience of 27 August 1980, the Holy Father continued his catechetical cycle on Theology of the Body, on the subject of adultery. Adultery is a sin of the body, violating exclusive matrimonial rights between a man and a woman, which constitutes a breakdown of the personal covenant between them. MONOGAMY IDOLATRY HOSEA PROPHETS MARRIAGE 73. Papal Documents - JP2TB19.HTM - Analysis of
Knowledge and of Procreation In his General Audience of 5 March 1980, the Holy Father continued his series on the Theology of the Body, by examining the meaning of the biblical statement that "Adam knew Eve his wife" (Gn 4:1-2). SEX MARRIAGE PERSON 85. Papal Documents - JP2TB61.HTM - Art Must Not
Violate the Right to Privacy In his General Audience of 29 April 1981, the Holy Father continued his catechesis on Theology of the Body by examining the limits beyond which art must not go in depicting masculinity or femininity. SHAME PORNOGRAPHY COMMUNION OF PERSONS NAKEDNESS NATURALISM 102. Papal Documents - JP2TB2.HTM - Biblical Account
of Creation Analysed 128. Papal Documents - JP2TB71.HTM - Body's
Spiritualization Will Be Source of Its Power and Incorruptibility In his General Audience of 10 February 1982, the Holy Father continued his catechesis on Theology of the Body by concluding his study of St. Paul's teaching on the general resurrection. Resurrected man, no longer weakened through his resistance to the Spirit, will be fully vivified, attaining the fullness for which he was created. ESCHATOLOGY ADAM ANIMAL BODY SPIRITUAL HOLY SPIRIT 129. Papal Documents - JP2TB4.HTM - Boundary Between
Original Innocence and Redemption In his General Audience on 26 September 1979, the Holy Father considered a continuity between man's state of original innocence and the state of original sin, which left him open to the grace of redemption. PROTO-GOSPEL MESSIAH THEOLOGY OF THE BODY 138. Papal Documents - JP2TB80.HTM - Celibacy for the
Kingdom Affirms Marriage In his General Audience of 5 May 1982, the Holy Father continued his catechesis on Theology of the Body, by concluding his considerations on Christ's words recommending continence for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven. Renunciation of marriage for the sake of the Kingdom affirms the value of what is renounced, in the gift of self to God. VIRGINITY CELIBACY FAMILY 139. Papal Documents - JP2TB79.HTM - Celibacy Is a
Particular Response to the Love of the Divine Spouse 143. Papal Documents - JP2TB23.HTM - Christ Appeals
to Man's Heart In his General Audience of 16 April 1980, the Holy Father continued his catechesis on Theology of the Body by turning to Christ's teaching, in the Sermon on the Mount, on adultery in the heart. ETHOS DECALOGUE MORAL LAW 145. Papal Documents - JP2TB48.HTM - Christ Calls Us
to Rediscover the Living Forms of the New Man In his General Audience of 3 December 1980, the Holy Father continued his catechesis on Theology of the Body, with regard to adultery in the heart, by focusing on the ethos of redemption, which calls for temperance in the natural erotic attraction between a man and a woman. ESCHATOLOGY MARRIAGE LUST SEX PURITY 152. Papal Documents - JP2TB92.HTM - Christ's
Redemptive Love Has Spousal Nature In his General Audience of 8 September 1982, the Holy Father continued his exposition of the fifth chapter of Ephesians, focusing on the meaning of the word "mystery," as it applies to God's plan, its revelation in Christ, Christ's relationship to the Church, and the sacraments of the Church. MARRIAGE THEOLOGY OF THE BODY SACRAMENTALITY 154. Papal Documents - JP2TB67.HTM - Christ's Words
on the Resurrection Complete the Revelation of the Body 188. Papal Documents - JP2TB38.HTM - Concupiscence as
a Separation From Matrimonial Significance of the Body 192. Papal Documents - JP2TB34.HTM - Content of the
Commandment: You Shall Not Commit Adultery In his General Audience of 13 August 1980, the Holy Father continued his catechesis on Theology of the Body. He presented Our Lord's teaching against adultery "in the heart" as a return to the spirit of the law, whose letter had been stretched to allow polygamy. CASUISTRY MONOGAMY 194. Papal Documents - JP2TB74.HTM - Continence for
the Sake of the Kingdom Meant to Have Spiritual Fulfillment In his General Audience of 24 March 1982, the Holy Father continued his talks on celibacy/virginity for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. It is a charismatic sign that in heaven people will no longer marry, because God will be everything to everyone. Departure from the Old Testament tradition of marriage and procreation was effected especially by the example of Christ himself. CONTINENCE THEOLOGY OF THE BODY 200. Papal Documents - JP2TB13.HTM - Creation as a Fundamental and Original Gift Pope John Paul II In his General Audience of 2 January 1980, the Holy Father continued his study of the Theology of the Body, analyzing the consciousness of our first parents, in how they perceived each other, without shame in their nakedness, as good, and a mutual gift, part of the good gift of God's creation. COMPLEMENTARITY IMAGE OF GOD 214. Papal Documents - JP2TB40.HTM - Depersonalizing
Effect of Concupiscence In his General Audience of 24 September 1980, the Holy Father further examined "adultery in the heart," spoken of by Our Lord in His Sermon on the Mount. When a woman is looked at lustfully by a man, she ceases to be regarded as a subject of personal attraction or communion, but only as an object of sexual satisfaction. And when this "intention" reaches the will, the man himself becomes enslaved. THEOLOGY OF THE BODY 230. Papal Documents - JP2TB69.HTM - Doctrine of the
Resurrection according to St. Paul In his General Audience of 27 January 1982, the Holy Father continued his catechesis on Theology of the Body by further examining St. Paul's teaching, in 1 Corinthians 15, on the general resurrection. The resurrection of the body completes man's redemption from the effects of sin. CREATION COSMOS DEATH 231. Papal Documents - JP2TB29.HTM - Dominion Over
the Other in the Interpersonal Relation In his General Audience of 18 June 1980, the Holy Father continued his series on Theology of the Body. Because of their sin, the man and woman feel shame toward each other, their communion is weakened, and he will exercise dominion over her. EQUALITY LUST MALE FEMALE 248. Papal Documents - JP2TB46.HTM - Eros and Ethos Meet and Bear Fruit in the Human Heart Pope John Paul II In his General Audience of 5 November 2004, the Holy Father explained that the warning of Christ against looking lustfully at a woman is less an accusation than an appeal, that what the heart desires (eros) should also be what is right (ethos). SEX PLATO PHILOSOPHY THEOLOGY OF THE BODY EROTIC ETHICS 249. Papal Documents - JP2TB41.HTM - Establishing the
Ethical Sense In his General Audience of 1 October 1980, the Holy Father continued his analysis of the words of Our Lord, in His Sermon on the Mount, concerning adultery in the heart. It is not merely a matter of lusting after a woman who is not one's wife, but of looking at her in a way dismissive of her dignity as well as of one's own. MARRIAGE THEOLOGY OF THE BODY SEX 253. Papal Documents - JP2TB24.HTM - Ethical and
Anthropological Content of the Commandment: You Shall Not Commit Adultery At his General Audience of 23 April 1980, the Holy Father continued his series on Theology of the Body. He examined the meaning of adultery, which is a breach in the unity of husband and wife, even if only by an interior act ("adultery in the heart"). He cited the case of David and Bathsheba. MARRIAGE SEX UNITIVE 254. Papal Documents - JP2TB62.HTM - Ethical
Responsibilities in Art In his General Audience of 6 May 1981, the Holy Father concluded his reflections on looking lustfully (from the Sermon on the Mount) with respect to artistic depictions of the human body. THEOLOGY OF THE BODY CULTURE PORNOGRAPHY NAKEDNESS SUBLIMATION CONCUPISCENCE CHASTITY 258. Papal Documents - JP2TB83.HTM - Everyone Has His
Own Gift from God, Suited to His Vocation In his General Audience of 7 July 1982, the Holy Father continued his catechesis on Theology of the Body, by further examination of St. Paul's statement that it is better to choose continence than to marry. While the gift of continence allows an undivided love for God, the grace of marriage is a true gift, suited to that state in life. CELIBACY 289. Papal Documents - JP2TB12.HTM - Fullness of
Interpersonal Communication At his General Audience of 19 December 1979, the Holy Father continued his series on the Theology of the Body, analyzing the absence of shame in our first parents, despite their nakedness, and its bearing on their communication with each other. COMMUNION PERSONS 296. Papal Documents - JP2TBIND.HTM - General
Audiences: John Paul II's Theology of the Body In his General Audiences, from September 1979, intermittently over a period of three years, and again in 1988, Pope John Paul II explained his Theology of the Body. Starting with the creation of man and woman as recorded in the Book of Genesis, he drew all the implications of that record for human love in the plan of God. This is an index page (in development) for the Holy Father's series of teachings on this subject. MARRIAGE UNITIVE MALE FEMALE SEX PROCREATION PERSONS METAPHYSICS BEING EXISTENCE IMAGE OF GOD ADAM MYTH ORIGINAL INNOCENCE SIN PROTO-GOSPEL MESSIAH SOLITUDE ANTHROPOLOGY LOGIC FREE WILL COVENANT PRAXIS COMMUNION CORPORALITY MOTHERHOOD FATHERHOOD MASCULINITY FEMININITY ADAM EVE MARY EUSEBEIA WISDOM REDEMPTION BEATITUDES HOLINESS LUST UNCHASTITY MODESTY TEMPERANCE PIETY FAMILY PEDAGOGY CULTURE OBJECTIVIZATION NUDITY PORNOGRAPHY NATURALISM NAKEDNESS SUBLIMATION LIFE DEATH REVELATION PHARISEES LEVIRATE LAW PLATO ARISTOTLE THOMAS AQUINAS GRACE SOUL SPIRIT PSYCHOSOMATIC ESCHATOLOGY BEATIFIC VISION WIVES HUSBANDS CHILDREN MASTERS SLAVES SERVANTS 306. Papal Documents - JP2TB43.HTM - Gospel Values
and Duties of the Human Heart In his General Audience of 15 October 1980, the Holy Father continued his analysis of "adultery in the heart" by distinguishing condemnation of lust from a condemnation of the body. MANICHAEISM GNOSIS THEOLOGY OF THE BODY MASCULINE FEMININE 368. Papal Documents - JP2TB7.HTM - In the Very
Definition of Man, the Alternative Between Death and Immortality In his General Audience on 31 October 1979, the Holy Father addressed again the solitude in which man was created, in relation to other creatures, but also with regard to his freedom of moral choice. The alternatives of death and immortality lay with him. THEOLOGY OF THE BODY PRAXIS PERSON WILL 378. Papal Documents - JP2TB42.HTM - Interpreting the
Concept of Concupiscence In his General Audience of 8 October 1980, the Holy Father concluded his analysis of adultery in the heart, by observing that it is an attitude of a man toward a woman (or vice versa) which reduces the communion of persons to satisfaction of an instinct. One may be guilty of this attitude towards one's own spouse. MARRIAGE THEOLOGY OF THE BODY LUST 405. Papal Documents - JP2TB50.HTM - Justification in
Christ In his General Audience of 17 December 1980, the Holy Father continued his catechesis on Theology of the Body by examining the conflict between "flesh" and "spirit" in the teaching of St. Paul. The lusts of the worldly man can be overcome by his spirit when empowered by the Holy Spirit. FRUITS WORKS VIRTUES SARX ARETE 407. Papal Documents - JP2TB21.HTM -
Knowledge-Generation Cycle and Perspective of Death In his General Audience of 26 March 1980, the Holy Father continued his catechesis on Theology of the Body. He further examined biblical "knowledge," as the nuptial relationship before the fall, a mutual, disinterested gift of self between spouses, contrasting it with the same relationship as a remedy for death after the fall. EROS MASCULINE FEMININE SEX 432. Papal Documents - JP2TB52.HTM - Life in the
Spirit Based on True Freedom In his General Audience of 14 January 1981, the Holy Father continued his catechesis on Theology of the Body by further examination of St. Paul's teaching on life according to the Spirit. It is purity of heart, which is the necessary condition for charity and true freedom. LAW LUST SELF-CONTROL TEMPERANCE HOLINESS 441. Papal Documents - JP2TB25.HTM - Lust is the
Fruit of the Breach of the Covenant With God In his General Audience of 30 April 1980, the Holy Father continued his catechesis on Theology of the Body. He examined the three-fold lust, of the flesh, of the eyes, and the pride of life, by which man broke God's original covenant. ELOHIM ORIGINAL INNOCENCE SIN 442. Papal Documents - JP2TB30.HTM - Lust Limits
Nuptial Meaning of the Body In his General Audience of 25 June 1980, the Holy Father continued his catechesis on Theology of the Body. The sin of Adam and Eve distorted the "nuptial meaning of the body," its masculinity/femininity, which was meant to shape their communion. Their relationship was corrupted by lust, which includes the desire to possess the other, rather than receive him/her as a free gift. SEX DOMINATION 446. Papal Documents - JP2TB16.HTM - Man and Woman: A
Mutual Gift for Each Other In his General Audience of 6 February 1980, the Holy Father reexamined the nuptial meaning of the body, in the mutual gift of self by our first parents, in the context of their original innocence. THEOLOGY OF THE BODY COMMUNION PERSONS DONATION SHAME SEX 447. Papal Documents - JP2TB9.HTM - Man Becomes the
Image of God by Communion of Persons In his General Audience of 14 November 1979, the Holy Father located the image of God, in which man was created, not only in the solitude of his humanity, but also in the communion of persons, in the creation of the first man and woman in relation to each other. MASCULINE FEMININE COMMUNION THEOLOGY OF THE BODY CORPORALITY 448. Papal Documents - JP2TB18.HTM - Man Enters the
World as a Subject of Truth and Love In his General Audience of 20 February 1980, the Holy Father continued his series on the Theology of the Body. Created in the image of God, man (Adam and Eve) entered the world as a primordial sacrament, a sign to the visible world of the invisible mystery hidden in God, the mystery of truth and love, the mystery of divine life, in which man really participates. MARRIAGE PROCREATION SUBJECTIVITY OBJECTIVITY SHAME 449. Papal Documents - JP2TB6.HTM - Man's Awareness of
Being a Person In his General Audience on 24 October 1979, the Holy Father linked "man's original solitude," as different from and superior to other living creatures, with consciousness of his body. ANTHROPOLOGY FREE WILL COVENANT THEOLOGY OF THE BODY 453. Papal Documents - JP2TB86.HTM - Marital Love
Reflects God's Love for His People In his General Audience of 28 July 1982, the Holy Father continued his catechesis on theology of the body by laying the groundwork for an examination of St. Paul's teaching on marriage in the fifth chapter of Ephesians. Marriage, as a sacrament, signifies the relationship between Christ and His Church, and before that, the spousal love between God and his chosen people. WIVES HUSBANDS 454. Papal Documents - JP2TB63.HTM - Marriage and
Celibacy in the Light of the Resurrection of the Body In his General Audience of 11 November 1981, the Holy Father began a new segment of his catechesis on theology of the body, basing his talk on the words of Christ to the Sadducees on the general resurrection. "These words are of fundamental importance for understanding marriage in the Christian sense and also the renunciation of conjugal life for the kingdom of heaven." PHARISEES LEVIRATE LAW 456. Papal Documents - JP2TB22.HTM - Marriage in the
Integral Vision of Man In his General Audience of 2 April 1980, the Holy Father continued his series on Theology of the Body. Only by going back to the "beginning," as Christ did in answering the Pharisees on divorce, can we get a total vision of man, male and female, and only so can we adequately understand marriage and procreation. COMMUNION ANTHROPOLOGY 457. Papal Documents - JP2TB10.HTM - Marriage One and
Indissoluble in First Chapters of Genesis In his General Audience of 21 November 1979, the Holy Father spoke on the communion of the first man and woman, how it renewed their original unity before separation in creation, and revealed the meaning of their bodies by their complementarity. MALE FEMALE SEX PROCREATION THEOLOGY OF THE BODY PERSONS 532. Papal Documents - JP2TB37.HTM - Meaning of
Adultery Transferred from the Body to the Heart In his General Audience of 3 September 1980, the Holy Father continued his catechesis on Theology of the Body, focusing on adultery, its place in the Wisdom tradition, and the change in emphasis introduced by Christ. MARRIAGE LUST CONCUPISCENCE 534. Papal Documents - JP2TB11.HTM - Meaning of
Original Human Experiences In his General Audience of 12 December 1979, the Holy Father observed that, in the Genesis account, the shame at their nakedness, experienced by the first man and woman after the Fall, contrasts with their original innocence, which invites further study of their original consciousness of their bodies. THEOLOGY OF THE BODY CREATION ANTHROPOLOGY 587. Papal Documents - JP2TB39.HTM - Mutual
Attraction Differs from Lust In his General Audience of 17 September 1980, the Holy Father continued his analysis of adultery in his series on Theology of the Body. The mutual attraction between a man and a woman, encompassing a "gamut of spiritual-corporal desires," to which a "proportionate pyramid of values" corresponds, differs from lust, in that the latter reduces the pyramid to one level, sex, as an object of gratification. MARRIAGE INTENTON AXIOLOGY CONCUPISCENCE 588. Papal Documents - JP2TB15.HTM - Mystery of Man's
Original Innocence In his General Audience of 30 January 1980, the Holy Father pursued his examination of the Theology of the Body by dwelling on the mystery of man's original innocence, that purity of heart which enabled Adam and Eve to give themselves to each other in love, as the effect of grace. NUPTIAL ORIGINAL RIGHTEOUSNESS JUSTICE 589. Papal Documents - JP2TB85.HTM - Mystery of the
Body's Redemption Basis of Teaching on Marriage and Voluntary Continence In his General Audience of 21 July 1982, the Holy Father continued his catechesis on Theology of the Body. The eschatological redemption of the body, in victory over death, is the inspiration for man's victory over sin in daily life, whether in marriage or in celibacy. CONTINENCE VIRGINITY RESURRECTION CONCUPISCENCE 590. Papal Documents - JP2TB20.HTM - Mystery of Woman
Revealed in Motherhood In his General Audience of 12 March 1980, the Holy Father further examined the concept of mutual "knowledge" between the first man and woman. The woman is brought to full awareness of the mystery of creation, in its renewal in human generation. MARRIAGE SEX PROCREATION THEOLOGY OF THE BODY MOTHERHOOD FATHERHOOD MASCULINITY FEMININITY IMAGE OF GOD ADAM EVE MARY 596. Papal Documents - JP2TB68.HTM - New Threshold of
Complete Truth About Man In his General Audience of 13 January 1982, the Holy Father continued his exposition of the words of Christ on the general resurrection, as applied to Theology of the Body. In some way difficult to imagine, the meaning of the human body will be revealed as the means of mutual self-giving in the communion of Saints. MARRIAGE ESCHATOLOGY PERSONS MALE FEMALE DIVINIZATION GLORIFICATION 600. Papal Documents - JP2TB1.HTM - Of the Unity and
Indissolubility of Marriage On 5 September 1979, in the first of his General Audiences on the Theology of the Body, the Holy Father expounded the words of Christ, "In the beginning the Creator made them male and female." MARRIAGE UNITIVE 630. Papal Documents - JP2TB51.HTM - Opposition
Between the Flesh and the Spirit In his General Audience of 7 January 1981, the Holy Father continued his catechesis on Theology of the Body by examining St. Paul's doctrine of justification, and in particular the opposition between life according to the flesh and life according to the Spirit (of God). PURITY DEATH MORTAL SIN 631. Papal Documents - JP2TB32.HTM - Opposition in
the Human Heart between the Spirit and the Body In his General Audience of 30 July 1980, the Holy Father continued his catechesis on Theology of the Body. The nuptial meaning of the body is destroyed when man or woman seeks to possess the other as an object, but not when each belongs to the other through self-giving. CONCUPISCENCE COMMUNION OF PERSONS 634. Papal Documents - JP2TB17.HTM - Original
Innocence and Man's Historical State In his General Audience of 13 February 1980, the Holy Father reexamined our first parents' original innocence, as their nature was originally graced, how it affected their relationship to each other and the nuptial meaning of their bodies as male and female. METAPHYSICS OBJECTIVIZATION PERSONALISM MARRIAGE THEOLOGY OF THE BODY 635. Papal Documents - JP2TB8.HTM - Original Unity of
Man and Woman In his General Audience of 7 November 1979, the Holy Father continued to lay groundwork for his Theology of the Body, meditating on Adam's "sleep" from which the division of the sexes emerged. MYTH MAN WOMAN MALE FEMALE 673. Papal Documents - JP2TB57.HTM - Positive
Function of Purity of Heart In his General Audience 1 April 1981, the Holy Father gathered the main threads of his teaching on Theology of the Body, as based on the words of Christ on man's creation as male and female, and his warning against adultery in the heart. Lust can be displaced only by purity of heart, which, in the teaching of St. Paul, is a gift of the Holy Spirit. ORIGINAL INNOCENCE SIN COVENANT LUST TEMPERANCE PIETY 674. Papal Documents - JP2TB45.HTM - Power of
Redeeming Completes Power of Creating In his General Audience of 29 October 1980, the Holy Father continued his catechesis on "adultery in the heart" by examining the three forms of lust ("of the flesh," "of the eyes," and the "pride of life") spoken of by St. John (1 Jn 2:15-16), in relation to the skewed pictures of man presented by Freud, Marx and Nietzsche. The truth of his humanity, the ability to love, is deeper than the three lusts. SEX MASCULINE FEMININE MANICHAEISM PSYCHOLOGY PSYCHOANALYSIS THEOLOGY OF THE BODY 688. Papal Documents - JP2TB58.HTM - Pronouncements
of Magisterium Apply Christ's Words Today In his General Audience of 8 April 1981, the Holy Father concluded his reflections on the words of Christ, in the Sermon on the Mount, on adultery in the heart. These words are key to the Theology of the Body, which underlies the thinking of many recent magisterial pronouncements. PEDAGOGY MASCULINITY FEMININITY PERSON MARRIAGE FAMILY 689. Papal Documents - JP2TB49.HTM - Purity of Heart In his General Audience of 10 December 1980, the Holy Father completed his study of adultery in the heart with a consideration of purity of heart, and how the Lord distinguished this from mere ritual purity. THEOLOGY OF THE BODY HYGIENE SPIRIT 694. Papal Documents - JP2TB26.HTM - Real
Significance of Original Nakedness In his General Audience of 14 May 1980, the Holy Father continued his series on Theology of the Body, explaining the nakedness of man after the fall as not merely physical. "...this man was deprived of the supernatural and preternatural gifts which were part of his endowment before sin. Furthermore, he suffered a loss in what belongs to his nature itself, to humanity in the original fullness of the image of God." SIN SHAME GRACE 695. Papal Documents - JP2TB44.HTM - Realization of
the Value of the Body According to the Plan of the Creator In his General Audience of 22 October 1980, the Holy Father clarified the meaning of lust, in his catechesis on Theology of the Body. Christ warned against lusting after a woman, not to condemn the body as evil (Manichaeism), but to condemn the devaluation of the body in its nuptial meaning, i.e., the manifestation of communion in spirit. MASCULINITY FEMININITY SEX CONCUPISCENCE ADULTERY 701. Papal Documents - JP2TB60.HTM - Reflections on
the Ethos of the Human Body in Works of Artistic Culture In his General Audience of 22 April 1981, the Holy Father continued his catechesis on Theology of the Body, examining the implications of exposure of the human body in artistic culture for the mutual donation of husband and wife. SHAME NUDITY LUST OBJECTIVIZATION PORNOGRAPHY 704. Papal Documents - JP2TB28.HTM - Relationship of
Lust to Communion of Persons In his General Audience of 4 June 1980, the Holy Father continued his catechesis on Theology of the Body. He examined the radical transformation wrought by lust and shame in the original relationship between the first man and woman. MASCULINITY FEMININITY SEX COMMUNION ORIGINAL SIN 716. Papal Documents - JP2TB88.HTM - Reverence for
Christ the Basis of Relationship Between Spouses In his General Audience of 11 August 1982, the Holy Father continued his catechesis on theology of the body, by examining more closely the right relationship between husband and wife as described in the fifth chapter of the Letter to the Ephesians. PIETAS SUBORDINATION 730. Papal Documents - JP2TB33.HTM - Sermon on the
Mount to the Men of Our Day In his General Audience of 6 August 1980, the Holy Father, continuing his catechesis on Theology of the Body, examined the the "hardness of heart," which all men share with Our Lord's auditors, and its connection with the three-fold lust which is our heritage from Adam. ADULTERY ORIGINAL SIN 743. Papal Documents - JP2TB47.HTM - Spontaneity: The
Mature Result of Conscience In his General Audience of 12 November 1980, the Holy Father continued his catechesis on Theology of the Body by examining the notion that subjection of an erotic attraction to an ethical form deprives it of its spontaneity. EROS ETHOS ADULTERY LUST MASCULINITY FEMININITY MARRIAGE SEX 746. Papal Documents - JP2TB90.HTM - St Paul's
Analogy of the Union of Head and Body In his General Audience of 25 August 1982, the Holy Father continued his catechesis on theology of the body, by further examination of Ephesians 5. He focussed attention on the analogy of head and body, as analogous to both the Christ-Church relationship and the husband-wife relationship. ECCLESIOLOGY MARRIAGE BAPTISM 747. Papal Documents - JP2TB54.HTM - St. Paul's
Description of the Body and Teaching on Purity In his General Audience of 4 February 1981, the Holy Father continued his catechesis on Theology of the Body by examining St. Paul's teaching on the body from 1 Corinthians 12. The human body is more than the sum of its biological characteristics. It is permeated by the "whole reality of the person and of his dignity." SHAME INNOCENCE HONOUR HONOR 748. Papal Documents - JP2TB53.HTM - St. Paul's
Teaching on the Sanctity and Respect of the Human Body In his General Audience of 28 January 1981, the Holy Father continued his catechesis on Theology of the Body by examining St. Paul's teaching on purity, in 1 Thessalonians 4, that we should control our bodies in holiness and honor. CHASTITY LUST TEMPERANCE 756. Papal Documents - JP2TB76.HTM - Superiority of
Continence Does Not Devalue Marriage In his General Audience of 7 April 1982, the Holy Father continued his catechesis on theology of the body, addressing the superiority of continence. It is superior to marriage, not based not on any devaluation of sexuality or of the human body, but on the motive for which continence is chosen, viz., the kingdom of heaven. CELIBACY VIRGINITY MANICHEISM 769. Papal Documents - JP2TB87.HTM - The Call to Be
Imitators of God and to Walk in Love In his General Audience of 4 August 1982, the Holy Father continued his examination of the fifth chapter of Ephesians as part of his ongoing catechesis on theology of the body. The prescriptions for family relationships should be understood in light of the Apostle's teaching on the Christian vocation. WIVES HUSBANDS CHILDREN SLAVES SERVANTS MASTERS 785. Papal Documents - JP2TB75.HTM - The Effective
and Privileged Way of Continence In his General Audience of 31 March 1982, the Holy Father continued his talks on celibacy/virginity for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Marriage is not depreciated, but continence has an exceptional value, when chosen with a supernatural motive. THEOLOGY OF THE BODY 788. Papal Documents - JP2TB31.HTM - The Heart a
Battlefield Between Love and Lust In his General Audience of 23 July 1980, the Holy Father continued his catechesis on Theology of the Body. After the fall, human sexuality was marked by a certain "coercion of the body," which subverts the expression of the spirit seeking the communion of persons, male and female, through a mutual gift of self. "The more lust dominates the heart, the less the heart experiences the nuptial meaning of the body." CONCUPISCENCE 789. Papal Documents - JP2TB59.HTM - The Human Body,
Subject of Works of Art In his General Audience of 15 April 1981, the Holy Father continued his catechesis on Theology of the Body, laying groundwork for a consideration of the human body in aesthetic experience, and how it relates to Our Lord's warning against looking with lust. CULTURE OBJECTIVIZATION 792. Papal Documents - JP2TB84.HTM - The Kingdom of
God, Not the World, Is Man's Eternal Destiny In his General Audience of 14 July 1982, the Holy Father continued his catechesis on Theology of the Body. He further examined St. Paul's teaching on the complementarity of continence and marriage, both vocations having in view the future life. VIRGINITY CELIBACY ESCHATOLOGY 794. Papal Documents - JP2TB64.HTM - The Living God
Continually Renews the Very Reality of Life In his General Audience of 18 November 1981, the Holy Father continued his catechesis on theology of the body, by returning to the words of Christ to the Sadducees on the general resurrection. They deny the resurrection because they doubt the power of God. DEATH LIFE REVELATION 795. Papal Documents - JP2TB14.HTM - The Man-Person
Becomes a Gift in the Freedom of Love In his General Audience of 16 January 1980, the Holy Father continued his series on the Theology of the Body, by examining the "nuptial meaning of the body." Through self-mastery, by which the purely physical side of sex was restrained, the first man and woman were free to give themselves totally to each other, and thereby discovered their true selves. CREATION MAN WOMAN MASCULINE FEMININE LOVE IMAGE OF GOD HAPPINESS BEATITUDE 801. Papal Documents - JP2TB56.HTM - The Pauline
Doctrine of Purity as Life according to the Spirit In his General Audience of 18 March 1981, the Holy Father continued his catechesis on Theology of the Body by further examination of St. Paul's teaching on purity. This virtue is reinforced by piety, a gift of the indwelling Holy Spirit, by which God is glorified. EUSEBEIA WISDOM REDEMPTION BEATITUDES HOLINESS 807. Papal Documents - JP2TB65.HTM - The Resurrection
and Theological Anthropology In his General Audience of 2 December 1981, the Holy Father continued his catechesis on Theology of the Body, by addressing the teaching of Christ on the relationship between male and female after the general resurrection. PLATO ARISTOTLE THOMAS AQUINAS SOUL 808. Papal Documents - JP2TB66.HTM - The Resurrection
Perfects the Person In his General Audience of 9 December 1981, the Holy Father continued his catechesis on Theology of the Body, with particular regard for the general resurrection, in which the body will be spiritualized, and both body and spirit divinized, in the vision of God. PSYCHOSOMATIC ESCHATOLOGY BEATIFIC VISION GRACE 809. Papal Documents - JP2TB70.HTM - The Risen Body
Will Be Incorruptible, Glorious, Dynamic, and Spiritual In his General Audience of 3 February 1982, the Holy Father continued his catechesis on Theology of the Body, by describing the body, at the general resurrection, as the fulfillment of the human aspiration to glory. This aspiration reflects the potentiality with which we were created to become conformed to the risen Christ. ESCHATOLOGY COSMOS ANTHROPOLOGY 815. Papal Documents - JP2TB82.HTM - The Unmarried
Person Is Anxious to Please the Lord In his General Audience of 30 June 1982, the Holy Father continued his catechesis on Theology of the Body, by examining St. Paul's statement in 1 Corinthians 7, that one who marries does well, but one who chooses continence or virginity does better. Continence makes more room to be anxious for "the things of the Lord," to please the Lord and work for the growth of His Church. CELIBACY MARRIAGE 816. Papal Documents - JP2TB78.HTM - The Value of
Continence Is Found in Love In his General Audience of 21 April 1982, the Holy Father continued his catechesis on Theology of the Body, with regard to the choice of virginity or celibacy. Continence for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven is the nuptial gift of self to Christ, the Spouse of the soul. MARRIAGE FAMILY RENUNCIATION 818. Papal Documents - JP2TB55.HTM - The Virtue of
Purity Is the Expression and Fruit of Life according to the Spirit In his General Audience of 11 February 1981, the Holy Father continued his catechesis on Theology of the Body, by further examining St. Paul's teaching on purity. It is identifiable as the virtue of temperance, but includes an element of respect for the body, as a temple of the Holy Spirit. LUST UNCHASTITY MODESTY REDEMPTION 819. Papal Documents - JP2TB73.HTM - The Vocation to
Continence in This Earthly Life In his General Audience of 17 March 1982, the Holy Father continued his talks on celibacy/virginity for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. This new ideal, though a departure from the Old Testament tradition of marriage, shed light on the theology of the body. ESSENES CHASTITY 889. Papal Documents - JP2TB72.HTM - Virginity or
Celibacy for the Sake of the Kingdom In his General Audience of 10 March 1982, the Holy Father began a new series on virginity/celibacy for the kingdom of heaven, in furtherance of his catechesis on theology of the body. A vocation to celibacy is an anticipation of that eschatological state when men "neither marry nor are given in marriage." CHASTITY CONTINENCE 913. Papal Documents - JP2TB81.HTM - Voluntary
Continence Derives From a Counsel, Not From a Command In his General Audience of 23 June 1982, the Holy Father continued his catechesis on Theology of the Body, by addressing St. Paul's treatment of virginity and marriage. Consecrated virginity is a matter of counsel, not command, so that marriage is no sin, though voluntary virginity is better. CONTINENCE CELIBACY HELLENISM
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