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The zenith of John Paul II’s thought on the human person, marriage, and the family is found in his “theology of the body.” For the first time, William E. May provides a comprehensive yet readable overview of this work in the context of several other key writings of Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II, providing rich insights into its development. Works surveyed include Love and Responsibility, Familiaris...
she me. Yet in betrothed love there is a full communication of persons, what Wojtyla later will term a communio personarum—a full surrendering of the self to another without losing possession of the self. What is paradoxical is that “in giving ourselves we find clear proof that we possess ourselves” (p. 98). “The concept of betrothed love implies the giving of the individual person to another chosen person” (p. 98). Marriage is rooted in betrothed love, which satisfies the demands of the personalistic
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