Christopher West

Now, I'm not gonna try and explain all of that, but, uh, he has this beautiful teaching which, you know, usually is spoken of in the context of, like, the issue of what is love? What is marriage? What is marital love? What, what's the meaning of the body and of, of, uh, of sex, of procreation? All, you know, so kind of topics around that, and it's really, really beautiful.

I, I especially recommend, uh, Christopher West and some of his, his writings or, or teachings around that.

Brilliant.

But she used that as a framework to talk about conversation, which I'd never heard.

I printed out the...

One of her very few polemical essays was the one against Christopher West.

But this text is just an amazing wealth of riches.

And in this text, there is a very short essay on Mary's widowhood.

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I would encourage us concretely to, one, invite the Lord into that dimension of our lives.

A couple things to read, maybe particularly Christopher West's Good News About Sex and Marriage might be helpful for some people.

That and Sex and Sacredness, which is this book that I don't know many people who've read, written by a guy named Christopher Derrick, who was a disciple of C.S. Lewis, which is a great book on the sacredness of sex and the beauty of it.

It's the world that thinks nothing of sex.

We were up in the Twin Cities and I still remember the conversation because she was so excited to receive that phone call from a young man who's.

getting married but just wants to do all things right and she was also very excited to recommend a book that had just come out christopher west had just written the good news about sex and marriage she said i am so excited i will send this book to you because it's such a good one for engaged couples um And it's a question and answer.

It's easy to read.

And in particular, when you just you're like, I don't know if we're doing this right.

You know, it's interesting.

I was thinking as you were talking about our conversation with Dr. Christopher West and how sexuality is a reflection of God's relationship with us.

And the verse, submit yourselves one to another.

And, Tabitha, you brought it up.

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We're going a little bit bigger.

We have a whole hotel, and, uh, we are, we have Christopher West coming in.

We're gonna be celebrating the feast of St. John Paul II, and we've got, again, music.

We have the band, Andrew Laubacher from the Eucharistic Congress, um, and his band that did that music.

You're with Nick Keppel on Body Talk, a show about the theology of the body from St. John Paul II.

We've been looking at a book by Christopher West called Theology of the Body for Beginners, which gives a good overview of this amazing catechesis from Pope John Paul II.

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So we have been looking at this book from Christopher West, which really tries to condense and simplify the writings of John Paul II into everyday language that we can understand.

Because when the Pope was delivering the catechesis that is called Theology of the Body, it's very academic and very profound and rich and kind of difficult to grasp.

So someone like Christopher West takes this material and translates it in a way that is understandable to all of us.

So this is what happens in his book, Theology of the Body for Beginners.

And today I would like to talk about chapter four of this book on the resurrection of the body, the resurrection, heaven.