Called to Love
Subtitle: Approaching John Paul II's Theology of the Body
By: Carl Anderson and José Granados
Contributors: Granados, José, 1970-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780385527712
Subjects: Doctrines; Human body; Catholic Church; Sex
Description: Explains Pope John Paul II's departure from the traditional Christian viewpoint of the body as a threat to a person's spiritual nature, offering an integrated vision of the body and soul and a new understanding of the divine meaning of human sexuality and the beauty of love.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-260).
Table of contents: title: The body manifests the person; title: Sexual difference : the vocation to love; title: The nuptial mystery : from the original gift to the gift of self; title: The communion of persons as an image of the trinity; title: A wounded heart : the fragility of love; title: Christ : the redeemer of the heart and the fullness of love; title: Maturing in the fullness of love; title: Loving with the love of Christ : the sacrament of marriage; title: Witnessing to the fullness of love : Christian virginity and the destiny of the body; title: The family and the civilization of love.