Unit 1: Intro to the Theology of the Body

The study of God, the purpose of our existence, and the call to love like God loves, as discovered and revealed through our bodies?

• The Study of the Body

• The Theology of the Body

• Our Universal Call to love

• The Humanae Vitae

A decision to will the good of another person. John Paul II echoes this same definition in his writing on love and adds that love involves a sincere gift of self. 

• lust

• communion

• love

• dignity

John Paul II’s presentation of the full story of what it means to be human as men and women created in God's image.

• Original Happiness

• Original Unity

• Humanae Vitae

• Adequate Anthropology

The original state when Adam (and by extension all mankind) realized he was alone in the visible world as a person

• Original Man

• Original Solitude

• Original Innocence

• Original Shame

The tendency to conceal one's sexual value in order to help others see their personal value. It reminds us of our dignity that must be protected. 

• lust

• love

• shameless

• shame

Flaunting the body with out inhibitions or conscience. Acting shamelessly reflects a false notion of sexual freedom and of the truth of the body. 

• lust

• shame

• shameless

• sexual freedom

The inherent and unchanging value of all persons as a direct result of their being created by God In His Image and likeness.

• Holiness

• original man

• dignity

• original happiness

The union of love between persons who make a gift of themselves to each other. The unity of Adam and Eve was an image of the communion of persons found in the Holy Trinity.

• Communion of Persons

• Original Unity

• Friendship
• Marriage

The period that begins with original sin and ends when Christ returns.

• Original Man

• Eschatological Man

• Historical Man

• Sinful Man

The joy that Adam and Eve experienced prior to the Fall. This was a the result of their purity of heart, which enabled them to understand God's love for them and their ability to love like him. 

• Original Happiness

• Original Innocence

• Original Nakedness

• Original Unity