Theology of the Body – Prof. Paige Hochschild

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🗓️ 26 November 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Prof. Paige Hochschild analyzes John Paul II’s Theology of the Body, contrasting the Catholic vision of bodily integration, purity, and vocation with both contemporary purity culture and philosophical dualism to reveal how grace, self-gift, and resurrection ground true human flourishing.

This lecture was given on October 6th, 2025, at University of South Florida.

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About the speaker:

Dr. Paige Hochschild is a professor of historical and systematic theology at Mount St. Mary's University (MD), specializing in Augustine, Thomas Aquinas and the early Church. She also teaches philosophy courses at the Seminary at Mount St. Mary's. She has written a book on the place of memory in Augustine's theological anthropology, and publishes on the Church, education, tradition, and 20th Century theological debates within the Church (scripture, history, marriage).

Keywords: Bodily Integration, Charity, Dualism And Gnosticism, Grace And Transformation, Human Sexuality, John Paul II, Marriage And Celibacy, Phenomenology, Purity Culture, Theology Of The Body

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0:25.2	So with some conversation back and forth with one of your noble leaders, Abigail,
0:30.5	I'm kind of focusing on the purity culture thing, which if you don't know what I mean by that,
0:35.5	I didn't know really what that meant until a few days ago,
0:37.7	did some research,
0:38.6	but I'm going to talk mostly in a general way about theology of the body,
0:42.9	what John Paul I second is doing there,
0:45.0	what I see at the center of it,
0:47.0	which actually has a lot to do with purity,
0:49.9	because at the center of this work that is so well known,
0:53.2	and I think much less actually read,
0:57.0	a lot of the central beauty of it, the theological wisdom is meant, and it has to do a lot with
1:03.1	the power of God that is manifest through the resurrection. But just, I'm going to begin, this is all
1:09.4	Abigail's fault again, where I'm beginning,
1:11.6	with looking up the purity culture, as I read more and found some actual scholarly articles,
1:17.6	it became familiar to me. I'm an adult convert and I had some really serious evangelical friends,
1:24.6	big families up in Canada, wonderful, wonderful people. And I saw some signs of this.
1:29.7	And these are just, this is not scholarly research, these opening things before I actually get
1:34.5	into theology of the body. But some elements of this might sound familiar to you. Some out of date.
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