Transcription of Pope John Paul II’s Theology of the Body
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Freedom, truth, gift, communion, dignity, love, person,meaning: these are all themes which are continually foundthroughout the writings of Pope John Paul II. They werethere even before he became Pope. As Cardinal KarolWojtyla he was influential in the writing of severaldocuments from Vatican II, not the least of which wasGaudium et Spes the Pastoral Constitution on the Churchin the Modern World from which he never tires ofquoting in his many encyclicals and apostolic letters. Man is the only creature on earth which God willed foritself, [and he] cannot fully find himself except through asincere gift of himself. (Gaudium et Spes 24)We must first know the purpose of our existence and whatwe were created for if we are to live a fully meaningful John Paul II explores the purpose of our existence inhis Theology of the Body,which consists of 129 generalWednesday audiences delivered by him during the firstfive years of his to his election as pope, John Paul II wrote a book, L o
The Theology of the Body – What, Why and How? Through his theology of the body, Pope John Paul II seeks to explain what the body means as a sign of the person and
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