description: Most people have heard the "whats" of Catholic teaching, but very few have ever heard the "whys." With humor and profound insight, Christopher West demonstrates in this talk that the Church's teaching on sex and marriage "makes sense," and corresponds perfectly with the deepest stirrings and desires of the human heart.Drawing on Pope John Paul II's Theology of the Body, West shares God's original plan for marriage and sexuality and how an understanding of this plan gives profound meaning to all our lives—married, single, and consecrated celibates.The Theology of the Body has been called "one of the boldest reconfiguration of Catholic theology in centuries," according to the pope's biographer George Weigel. In this body of work, the pope asks and answers some of the most fundamental questions of human existence, including:  
   Why were we created male and female?  
   Where do we come from and why?  
   What is the meaning of life? How do we experience it?  
   Why is there evil in the world and how do we overcome it? 
 
language: English
title: God, Sex and the Meaning of Life 2D: An Introduction to Pope John Paul II's Theology of the Body
titlecomplete: God, Sex and the Meaning of Life 2D: An Introduction to Pope John Paul II's Theology of the Body
ratings_count: 9
publisher: Ascension Press