Christopher West: Theology of the Body and the New Evangelization: How John Paul II’s Spousal Theology Empowers Us to Proclaim the Gospel to the Modern World

Christopher West: Theology of the Body and the New Evangelization: How John Paul II’s Spousal Theology Empowers Us to Proclaim the Gospel to the Modern World John Paul II’s Theology of the Body is most often framed as a catechesis on marriage and sexual love. It is that, but, through...

Christopher West: Theology of the Body and the New Evangelization: How John Paul II’s Spousal Theology Empowers Us to Proclaim the Gospel to the Modern World

John Paul II’s Theology of the Body is most often framed as a catechesis on marriage and sexual love. It is that, but, through his spousal theology, this great mystic saint has given us a lens through which to view the entire Christian mystery, and he’s given us a new language with which to share the age-old truth of the gospel with the modern world. In this session Christopher West follows John Paul II’s, Benedict XVI’s, and Pope Francis’s lead in reframing the gospel as a the only adequate response to the deepest longings of the heart, a longing the Church does not hesitate to call “eros”!