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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...

(see Gen 2) has brought us to surprising conclusions with regard to anthropology, that is, the fundamental science about man, contained in this book. In fact, in relatively few sentences, the ancient text sketches man as a person with the subjectivity characterizing the person. When God-Yahweh gives to the first man, formed in this way, the commandment concerning all the trees that grow in the “garden in Eden,” above all the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, this adds the aspect of choice and
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