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Man and Woman He Created Them is John Paul II’s seminal work on the bodily dimension of human identity, sexuality, marriage, and celibacy. First written while he was Archbishop of Kraków, then later revised and delivered as a series of catecheses after he became pope, this work was called “theology of the body” by John Paul II himself. In his momentous teaching, John Paul II has left us the core...

of course, also of man today. Yet, in every man without exception, this state—the “historical” state—plunges its roots deeply into his theological “prehistory,” which is the state of original innocence. 2. It is not a question of mere dialectic. The laws of knowing correspond to those of being. It is impossible to understand the state of “historical” sinfulness without referring or appealing to the state of original (in some sense “prehistoric”) and fundamental innocence (and in fact Christ appeals
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