Product Description: Gift and Communion offers a critical presentation of John Paul II's the- ology of the body, understood in the light of Christian theological tradition. The main thesis of the book is that John Paul II's theology of the body forms a new, inspiring approach to Christian ethics and the theology of marriage and family, as well as to theological anthropology...read more

Product Description: Discover the theology of the body—your life will never be the same. Each of the stories in Set Free to Love will help you hear the same call to live out the gift of love in your own life, in your own way. These are stories from Catholics in all walks of life, including college students, married persons, professionals, and clergy...read more

Product Description: Pope John Paul II's new theological perspective provides a fresh approach to understanding our human body as a reflection of our dignity as persons made in the image and likeness of God. As Fr. Hogan explains, it also supplies a framework for evaluating why certain behaviors violate that dignity and others are genuine gifts of love...read more

Product Description: Over the course of his pontificate, Pope John Paul II devoted a large portion of his writings to two topics: the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Theology of the Body. The Church s Marian beliefs have

Product Description: This first book-length treatment of Thomas Aquinas'stheory of the body presents a Catholic understandingof the body and its implications for social and politicalphilosophy. Making a fundamental contribution toantitotalitarian theory, McAleer argues that a sexual politicsreliant upon Aquinas's theory of the body is better (becauseless violent) than other commonly available theories...read more

Product Description: On the Body is unlike any other by this author. It is carefully structured in five parts, and is a major study on the catechesis of the human body and the spirit that lies within. The content for this work comes out of the Cardinal's 20 years as a bishop and it is from this experience that he regards this topic as being central theologically, anthropologically, and pedagogically...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The wounds of Jesus have been the focal point for innumerable devotions throughout the history of Catholic piety, yet there has been very little attempt to read those wounds from a contemporary theological/ philosophical perspective...read more

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Product Description: The Theology of the Body contains talks given by John Paul II in which he discusses the bodily dimension of human personhood, sexuality, and marriage in the light of biblical revelation.