Theology of the Body: An Overview | Fr. Thomas Petri, O.P.

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🗓️ 7 March 2023

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This lecture was given on January 28, 2023, at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., as part of the intellectual retreat entitled, "Theology of the Body." 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 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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0:53.6	So just to remind you this morning that the theology of the body is a series of catechetical
0:59.2	addresses delivered by St. John Paul II virtually every Wednesday from 1979 to 1984.
1:07.4	He missed some Wednesdays when he was shot.
1:16.2	He took one year off for the, I think it was the Marian Holy Year.
1:19.3	There was a holy year in that time frame.
1:24.5	So one of the things, everything that John said yesterday,
1:45.0	I would just add that one of the things that the theology of the body is as well is just that. It's catechetical addresses. So they're intended to catechize. In these addresses, he's attempting to educate Christians. He didn't write the theology of the body necessarily to convince non-Christians or non-Catholics.
1:51.3	So in that sense, it's not intended to be an apologia. It's not apologetics that he's doing.
1:58.9	And this is, and this flows from the fact that the theology of the body takes scripture as its starting point. In the theology of the body, St.
2:02.5	John Paul II is not interested in making philosophical arguments for the truths that he presents,
2:08.8	even though all his life he considered himself primarily a philosopher. Throughout his early career,
2:16.1	Carol Voitia, as a priest, came to be concerned because, and this has been noted by a number of his biographers, he came to be concerned that theology and philosophy had become too abstract and too disconnected from the experience of the lives of the faithful in the pews.
2:38.5	So think the 1950s is when he is a young priest.
2:44.0	And it's noted that he spent much of his time as a young priest with young families.
2:50.0	So he was interacting with couples as they were dating
2:53.2	and getting to know each other and as they were first having children. And as he would see them go
3:00.2	through and get to know their parents and grandparents. So in fact, this was his nickname,
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