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Theology of the Body
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Chris West
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Mary Shivanandan
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Series of Talks 1979-84
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Purpose
Defend Humanae Vitae
Explaining the importance of the bodyto understanding the human person
Understanding the body as a sign oftranscendent realities
Helping us understand our vocation in
the world as being made in the imageand likeness of God, as male andfemale
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Return to Scripture
Likewise let the other theological disciplinesbe renewed through a more living contactwith the mystery of Christ and the history of
salvation. Special care must be given to theperfecting of moral theology. Its scientificexposition, nourished more on the teachingof the Bible, should shed light on theloftiness of the calling of the faithful in Christand the obligation that is theirs of bearingfruit in charity for the life of the world.(Optatam Totius, 16, 1965)
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Christ Reveals Man to
HimselfIn reality it is only in the mystery of theWord made flesh that the mystery ofhumanity truly becomes clear. For
Adam, the first man, was a type of himwho was to come, Christ the Lord.Christ, the new Adam, in the very
revelation of the mystery of the Fatherand of his love, fully reveals humanityto itself and brings to light its very highcalling. (Gaud ium et Spes, 22)
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Self-Giving
If human beings are the only
creatures on earth that God has
wanted for their own sake, theycan fully discover their true selves
only in self-giving (Gaud ium et
Spes, 24) Man must lose himself, to find
himself. (Luke17:33)
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Matt: 19: 4-8
He said in reply, "Have you not read thatfrom the beginning the Creator 'made them male
and female' and said, 'For this reason a man
shall leave his father and mother and be joined
to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'?
So they are no longer two, but one flesh.
Therefore, what God has joined together, no
human being must separate." They said to him,
"Then why did Moses command that the man
give the woman a bill of divorce and dismiss(her)?" He said to them, "Because of the
hardness of your hearts Moses allowed you to
divorce your wives, but from the beginning it
was not so.
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Man Made in the
Likeness and Image of
God Rational: thinks, is creative, is
intuitive
Free: makes free choices, creates
himself and impacts the world
around him
Relational: is designed to love and
be loved
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Powerful Metaphysical
ContextMan cannot be reduced to
the world.
Procreation places him in theworld of time and becoming.
The goodness of creation
introduces the notion of
value.
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Blessing of Fertility
In the mystery of creation on thebasis of the original and constituentsolitude of his being man was
endowed with a deep unity betweenwhat is, humanly and through the body,male in him and what is, equallyhumanly and through the body, female
in him. On all this, right from thebeginning, the blessing of fertilitydescended, linked with humanprocreation(cf. Gn1:28).(TOB, 47)
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Genesis 2: 7, 18-19Yahweh God fashioned man of dust from
the soil. Then he breathed into his nostrils a
breath of life and thus man became a living
being.Yahweh God said, It is not goodthat the man should be alone. I will make
him a helpmate. So from the soil Yahweh
God fashioned all the wild beasts and all
the birds of heaven. These he brought tothe man to see what he would call them;
each one was to bear the name the man
would give it.
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Original Solitude
of Adam
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Original Solitude
Names the animals
dominion
different
Self-aware Alone
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Genesis 2:20-22
But no helpmate suitable for man was
found for him. So Yahweh God made
the man fall into a deep sleep. Andwhile he slept, he took one of his ribs
and enclosed it in flesh. Yahweh God
built the rib he had taken from the man
into a woman, and brought her to theman.
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Original Innocence
The man and his wife
were both naked, yet they
felt no shame.
They had no disordered
passions.
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Original Unity
Intersubjectivity: They were one in
their thoughts.
They could participate in the freedom
of the gift.
They were transparent to each other.
They were a Communion of Persons.
They did not use each other.
They simply delighted in each other.
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Results of
Original Sin
Disunity/Fragmentation
Of Man from God
Of male and female from eachother
Of the passions within each
person
Shame
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Language
of the Body
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Need for
Self-Mastery
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St Paul
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Universal Call
to Holiness
What God wants is for you all to be
holy. He wants you to keep away from
fornication, and each one of you to
know how to use the body that belongsto him in a way that is holy and
honourable, not giving way to selfish
lust like the pagans who do not knowGod. He wants nobody at all ever to sin
by taking advantage of a brother in
these matters. (Thessalonians4: 3-5)
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Christ asBridegroom
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Celibacy
There are eunuchs who wereborn thus from their motherswomb and there are eunuchswho have made themselves
eunuchs for the kingdom ofheavens sake. He who is able toaccept it, let him accept it. (Matt19:12)
For when they rise from thedead, men and women do notmarry; no, they are like theangels in heaven. (Mark 12:25)
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St. Paul on Celibacy
I would like to see you free from all worry. Anunmarried man can devote himself to the Lordsaffairs, all he need worry about is pleasing the
Lord; but a married man has to bother about theworlds affairs and devote himself to pleasinghis wife: he is torn two ways. I say this only tohelp you, not to put a halter round your necks,
but simply to make sure that everything is as itshould be, and that you give your undividedattention to the Lord. (1 Cor. 7: 32-35)
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C
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Celibacy:
Eschatological Sign
Earthly continence for the kingdom of
heaven is undoubtedly a sign that
indicates this truth and this reality. It is
sign that the body, whose end is notthe grave, is directed to glorification.
Already by this very fact, continence
for the kingdom of heaven is a witnessamong men that anticipates the future
resurrection. (TOB, 267)
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Mystic MarriageOf St. Catherine
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Celibacy: a Spousal
Relationship
Continence for the sake of the kingdom ofheaven, the choice of virginity or celibacy forones whole life, has become in the
experience of Christs disciples andfollowers the act of a particular response oflove for the divine Spouse. Therefore it hasacquired the significance of an act of nuptial
love, that is, a nuptial giving of oneself forthe purpose of reciprocating in a particularway the nuptial love of the Redeemer. (TOB,282)
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Wives be subject to your
husbands, as to the Lord(Eph. 5:2)
the author does not intend to say that thehusband is the lord of the wife and that the
interpersonal pact proper to marriage is apact of domination of the husband over thewife. Instead, he express a different concept
that the wife can and should find in herrelationship with Christ, who is the one Lord
of both the spouses, the motivation of thatrelationship with her husband which flowsfrom the very essence of marriage and of thefamily.(TOB, 310)
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Mutual Submission
The husband and wife are in fact subject toone another, and are mutually subordinatedto one another. The source of this mutualsubjection is to be found in Christian pietas,
and its expression is love.Love excludesevery kind of subjection whereby the wifemight become a servant or slave of thehusband, an object of unilateraldomination.The community or unity whichthey should establish through marriage isconstituted by a reciprocal donation of self,which is also a mutual subjection. (TOB, 310)
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Cont.
If this truth be lacking, one cannotspeak either of the truth of self-mastery, or of the truth of the
reciprocal gift and of the reciprocalacceptance of self on the part of theperson. Such a violation of the interiororder of conjugal union, which isrooted in the very order of the person,constitutes the essential evil of thecontraceptive act. (TOB, 398)
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