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Theology of the Body

Christopher West responds to the Criticism

October 26, 2009 · 4 comments

This past summer Christopher West came under quite a bit of criticism after an appearance on Nightline talking about Theology of the Body.  We had a good conversation here on Fallible Blogma about some of his teaching approaches in the context of his comparing Hugh Hefner and the Pope.

But now West, after much reflection and consultation, is finally speaking out about the issue: [Keep Reading]

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Book: Theology of Her Body / Theology of His Body

July 3, 2009 · 2 comments

tob_his-her“We know from the book of Genesis that God created men and women ‘in His image and likeness.’  We know from the first letter of John that ‘God is Love.’  Therefore, men and women are made in the image and likeness of Love.  This isn’t hard to see.  Look at the design of the male and female bodies. They are made for each other. In fact, neither one makes complete sense apart from the other.” – Jason Evert, Theology of Her Body [Keep Reading]

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The Christopher West Theology of the Body “Debate”

I recently posted a video of one of Christopher West’s excellent talks on the Theology of the Body. Some of you loved it.  Others were a bit critical of some of his methods, emphasis, or terminology and expressed such in the comment section. I thought it was a great discussion. There were [...]

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Quote: Babies and Bonding

“What is the purpose and meaning and nature of sexual intercourse? It seems to me to be quite clear. It’s for two things. It’s for babies and it’s for bonding. And that’s what happens when you have sexual intercourse – you have babies and you bond. My view is, if you don’t want to have [...]

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What Hugh Hefner and the Pope have in Common

There are some very confused views of the human person in our world today – even just within Christianity. Pope John Paul II has articulated perhaps the most profound, and true, view to date.

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Lusting For Your Wife

Growing up I was around a lot of different denominations of Christians. We all agreed that sex should wait until marriage. And we needed to promote chastity. And there were promise rings and chastity bracelets and all that jazz. Those are all good things. But in that same sentiment was something [...]

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The Best Self-Improvement Book: Children

Of all the self-help ideas for sale these days, there is one that is rarely mentioned: children.  Maybe that’s because many of these self-help gurus don’t have kids.  Or maybe it’s just because they haven’t found a way to make a bunch of money off of it yet.  After all, it comes rather natural (without [...]

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Liberty Builds on Legalism

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 [...]

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What does it mean to be human?

I’m not going to pretend I can come close to answering such a question – especially not in a single blog post. And probably not in my entire lifetime. But I do believe that we’ve found something that answers it more fully than ever before. Besides, I think it’s important to make [...]

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A Theological Time Bomb

With all of the moral confusion in our society these days it’s hard to imagine what the future will look like. We seem to have an increasingly wide divide between those that “cling” to a traditional morality and those anxious to be free from it. And being on the eve of an Obama [...]

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The Definition of a Word: Marriage

There were a few brights spots in the recent election cycle in regard to the issues of Life and Family.  Although we elected a very socially liberal president in Barack Obama, this does not at all seem to indicate any kind of major social shift in actual American values.
In other words, he was not elected [...]

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