Christopher West on Sex, God, Beauty, and the Theology of the Body | Ep. 269

Pints With Aquinas

Matt Fradd

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2021

⏱️ 196 minutes

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In this episode, Christopher West of the Theology of the Body Institute comes on the show to chat about Pope St. John Paul II's "Theology of the Body," and a whole lot more — from Descartes to coffee addictions. We sit back and let the conversation flow about all kinds of things, including: How a philosopher who died over 350 years ago is affecting how we think about sex and our bodies The real meanings of hot-button words (do you know where the word "gender" comes from?) Why you need to open up your messy life to God and what happens if you don't Where to find the marriage imagery in the Bible Where the Church is headed and how to live with hope in a post-Christian world Download my FREE ebook, "You Can Understand Aquinas," now! https://pintswithaquinas.com/understanding-thomas/ SPONSORS Hallow: http://hallow.app/mattfradd STRIVE: https://www.strive21.com/ Catholic Chemistry: https://www.catholicchemistry.com/ GIVING Patreon or Directly: https://pintswithaquinas.com/support/ This show (and all the plans we have in store) wouldn't be possible without you. I can't thank those of you who support me enough. Seriously! Thanks for essentially being a co-producer co-producer of the show. LINKS Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/matt-fradd FREE 21 Day Detox From Porn Course: https://www.strive21.com/ SOCIAL Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PintsWithAquinas Twitter: https://twitter.com/mattfradd Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pints_w_aquinas Gab: https://gab.com/mattfradd MY BOOKS Does God Exist: https://www.amazon.com/Does-God-Exist-Socratic-Dialogue-ebook/dp/B081ZGYJW3/ref=sr_1_9?dchild=1&keywords=fradd&qid=1586377974&sr=8-9 Marian Consecration With Aquinas: https://www.amazon.com/Marian-Consecration-Aquinas-Growing-Closer-ebook/dp/B083XRQMTF/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=fradd&qid=1586379026&sr=8-4 The Porn Myth: https://www.ignatius.com/The-Porn-Myth-P1985.aspx CONTACT Book me to speak: https://www.mattfradd.com/speakerrequestform Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	How often do you go live? Do you go live or are you just posting? I haven't been live for a long
0:04.5	time like a year. I dabbled with going live but I don't go live like you go live man. Yeah. So you're doing a great job though with your podcast right now. My son. You are doing a great job with his podcast right now. My son is doing a great job with my podcast. I'm so glad it's almost like you've been... Well, the podcast and the
0:01.9	YouTube stuff. That's really
0:04.0	what I mean, but. I think podcasts, we used to say podcasts, I mean audio. Yeah. And now we just everyone made their podcasts. I'm always behind the curve on social media stuff and how it all works. So podcast sounds just audio to me. Yeah. I think it does to a lot of people, but I think today it's more synonymous. This is your podcast. This is a podcast. It's on YouTube. But we're being filmed at the same time. Exactly. And it'll come out as an audio podcast later. I didn't know that part. So you go on YouTube and you put it on your audio. Yeah. You do the same? No. It's so easy. My podcast is separate from my YouTube. Okay. Cool two birds with one stone. Yeah, Wendy and I do our podcast, just audio, although we used to film it,
1:00.0	but now we've updated what we're doing and we have this new YouTube approach with a new studio. My son Thomas put it all together.
1:07.0	Was that a COVID thing, kind of response to needing to do more things virtually?
1:11.9	Yes, yes. The COVID, filming the podcast for YouTube was a COVID thing. Yeah. And all kinds of stuff
1:18.2	we've been doing is response to COVID. COVID has been a hidden blessing for me and my ministry,
1:23.4	really. How so? We've reached a global audience that we never would have reached because we were
1:28.5	compelled to go online. And we had, we had toyed, you know, I've been teaching these courses
1:33.9	for the Theology of the Institute's for 15, 16 years. And we've had about 6,000 students
1:41.0	travel to Pennsylvania to take these five-day courses. You took one. Yeah, I loved it, yeah. And we toyed with going online with these classes, but it's theology of the body. I know, that's what I was thinking, yeah. Incarnational, we wanted, we were wondering could it even work? Yeah. But then COVID said, doesn't matter. This is all you got. We have to go online.
2:02.0	And I have found that going online, there's some drawbacks to it, but it's not an impediment
2:07.6	to the Holy Spirit touching hearts and touching lives.
2:09.9	So we have truly increased our audience exponentially with going online thanks to COVID.
2:20.8	Yeah, I think it's interesting.
2:25.5	Like you see like the quality that this, this show is and your show with your excellent stuff.
2:26.1	And it seems like everybody's upping their game in the YouTube world as far as quality.
2:30.4	And I really think if COVID hadn't have happened, that wouldn't have necessarily
2:33.1	happened.
2:33.4	I think you're right.
2:37.3	Because everyone has to find a way to honestly make an income and and to evangelize in a way that they couldn't prior and so it's been interesting to see that
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