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Made for Another: John Paul II's Theology of the Body and Thomas Aquinas | Fr. Thomas Petri, O.P.

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The Body Is an Objective Reality That Must Be Respected

For Boitihua the body is an objective reality that must be respected. It's not incidental to who we are and so here's a direct quote he says this, if the human being in marriage and indirectly also in other spheres of mutual life gives to his behavior a meaning in conformity with the fundamental truth of the language of the body then he is in the truth. In the opposite case if he commits lies and falsifies the language ofThe body he commits sin he is a liar. The final theme I'm going to bring out on the theology of the body before we turn to St. Thomas Aquinas is the redemption of the body. Because God becomes incarnate and takes the human

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