Made for Another: John Paul II's Theology of the Body and Thomas Aquinas | Fr. Thomas Petri, O.P.

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🗓️ 27 January 2023

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This lecture was given on December 5, 2022, at St. Charles Catholic Church in Arlington, Virginia. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Father Thomas Petri, O.P. is the President of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of Studies, where he also serves as an assistant professor of moral theology and pastoral studies. Ordained a priest in 2009, he holds a Doctorate in Sacred Theology from The Catholic University of America.

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0:52.2	This evening, we're going to spend some time with St. John Paul II's Theology of the Body.
0:56.9	I don't know.
0:58.0	I mean, the theology of the body is an interesting set of talks that St. John Paul II gave.
1:04.8	Not long after he was made Pope, beginning in September of 1979, that were later correlated into a book, and we might say
1:14.6	an entire sort of cottage industry developed beginning in the mid-1990s, early 2000s, to interpret
1:21.7	his theology of the body, what he meant by it, and to make it applicable and helpful to young adults, teens, anyone who
1:30.3	really wanted to understand the church's teaching on sexuality, which is why John Paul
1:37.0	wrote those talks and gave them. We're going to focus just a little bit on some of the major themes of the theology of the body.
1:47.2	Some of you probably may have already read a lot of the theology of the body.
1:51.3	Maybe you've read people like Christopher West or George Weigel, Jose Granados, has written a lot on this.
2:00.3	I always forget Stephen Abert's wife's name. That's horrible.
2:03.8	Mary and Stephen Eberts, there it is. They wrote a theology of the body for teen. So it's all over.
2:10.6	There hasn't been a lot of robust theological work done on the theology of the body and what John Paul was or was not
2:18.8	attempting to do. This evening I'm going to, as I say, sort of skip stones a little bit
2:23.8	over the themes of the theology of the body and then connect those to six very
2:31.4	brief points of what St. Thomas Aquinas taught in the 13th century. I don't think that St.
2:40.1	John Paul II thought he was doing anything particularly original in the theology of the body,
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