Thomistic Underpinnings of the Theology of the Body | Fr. Thomas Petri, O.P.

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🗓️ 12 October 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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This talk was given on September 8, 2022 at The University of Texas at Austin For more information please visit 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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0:11.0	Before we begin, I'm interested in, Father said many of you are interested in the theology of the body.
0:16.0	I'm interested to know how many of you have read it or know something of it or knew something
0:21.9	of it before you saw the flyer that this was going to be the talk this evening. Anyone
0:26.8	having any previous experience of the theology of all? Okay. That's pretty much what I expected.
0:32.5	So, which is great. So I can introduce you to this a little bit this evening.
0:47.7	Briefly, simply to say that the theology of the body is comprised of a series of Wednesday audiences.
0:52.7	The Pope has a general audience every Wednesday, Pope Francis continues this tradition, in which he speaks for about 20 minutes or so
0:56.9	on a topic. And Pope Francis, as did Pope Benedict, and before him St. John Paul II,
1:04.0	tend to string together those audiences to form cohesive teachings on various things. St. John Paul II did that every Wednesday,
1:16.6	beginning September 5th, 1979 for five years, all on this topic. And those audiences
1:24.6	were strung together and eventually became known as the theology of the body.
1:29.3	It was really St. John Paul II's mature understanding of human sexuality and human anthropology,
1:38.3	something that he had been working on for many years as a young priest and then as the Archbishop of Krakoff before he was elected Pope.
1:47.0	The theology of the body came as a sort of, he intended the theology of the body to be a sort of robust defense
1:54.0	of Pope St. Paul the 6th is 1968 encyclical Humane Vite. If you don't know what Humanevete was, this was the landmark
2:04.4	encyclical that created a lot of dissent and division in the church in which Paul
2:09.6	the 6th defended the church's constant teaching against contraception, against contraception.
2:17.1	And this was a very, to call it a hot button issue at the time,
2:23.1	would be an understatement.
2:25.3	Because beginning in the 20th century,
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