One of my favorite things about the Theology of the Body (and Church teaching in general) is how it builds upon and gives deeper meaning to earlier teaching. We talked in the last post about how the Theology of the Body takes us from simply having a list of rules we can’t break (legalism) to an even deeper understanding that makes us never even want to break those rules in the first place (liberty).
It’s similar with kids. Parents might tell their 3 year old “Don’t put your hand near the stove!” And often they give the child a spanking or something unpleasant so that they learn “Stove = bad.” This is because we can’t reason with a 3 year old child and explain to them, “Listen, if you put your hand on the stove you can get very badly burned and hurt yourself.” They simply don’t have the capacity yet to think in those terms. They just know that Mommy and Daddy get really mad if I go near the stove. [Keep Reading]
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