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The first edition of Theology of the Body Explained quickly became a bestseller, serving as a standard reference text in universities, seminaries, and private study. This newly revised and expanded edition is based on Michael Waldstein’s much improved translation of John Paul II’s catechesis published by Pauline Books & Media under the title Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body. ...

Let us now return to the Pope’s thesis statement, with which I began my commentary. The first part of his thesis states that the “body, in fact, and only the body, is capable of making visible what is invisible: the spiritual and the divine” (TOB 19:4). Contrary to widespread heretical belief, the human person is not a spirit trapped in a body. The body is not merely a “shell” or a “house” for the soul. The human being is a profound unity of soul and body and it is precisely this unity that constitutes
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