Contents Acknowledgments to the First Edition Foreword by Michael Waldstein Foreword to the First Edition by George Weigel Introduction Need for a Revised Edition Prologue: The Human Body, Catholicism, and John Paul II 1. What is the Theology of the Body? The Wednesday Catechesis The "Crisis of the Body" The Gospel of the Body 2. What Makes the Human Body "Theological"? The Sacramentality of the Body Sign of the Mystery Hidden in God The Marriage of Theology and Anthropology The Scandal of the Body 3. The Great Spousal Analogy God Wants to "Marry" Us Understanding the Spousal Analogy Properly The Particular Value of the Spousal Analogy Influence of St. John of the Cross Personalism and the Sincere Gift of Self 4. The Spiritual Battle Plagiarizing the Primordial Sacrament The Symbolic and the Diabolic "Angelism" and "Animalism" Integrating Body and Spirit 5. The Deepest Substratum of Ethics and Culture At the Origins of Evil The Wellspring of Culture Christ Heals the Rift Need for a Paradigm Shift Man Cannot Live without Love 6. Wojtyla?s Philosophical and Theological Project The Modern ?Turn toward the Subject? "Thomistic Personalism" What is Phenomenology? Loving and Interiorizing the "Splendor of the Truth" Saving the "Subjective Turn" from Subjectivism Other Steps in Wojtyla?s Thought 7. A Response to the Humanae Vitae Crisis The Need for a ?Total Vision of Man? The Need for a Personalistic Ethic The Personalistic Norm Structure of the Catechesis Prologue?In Review Part I: The Words of Christ [Establishing an Adequate Anthropology] Chapter 1: Christ Appeals to the Beginning [Cycle 1: Original Man] 1. What Is Meant by ?Beginning?? Unity and Indissolubility Two Creation Accounts Continuity in the ?Redemption of the Body? Revelation and Experience 2. The Meaning of Original Solitude A Twofold Meaning Man in Search of His Own Identity Objective-Subjective Harmony Partner of the Absolute The Alternative between Death and Immortality The Body Expresses the Person 3. The Meaning of Original Unity The Unity of the Two The Meaning of Adam?s ?Sleep? The Meaning of Adam?s Rib Communion of Persons Communion Overcomes and Affirms Solitude A Dramatic Development of Catholic Thought Theology of Sex Man as a Subject in Relation The Original Conjugal Act? Man?s ?Original Virginal Value? The Vital Power of Communion 4. The Meaning of Original Nakedness The Key to Biblical Anthropology Penetrating Their Experience Shame as a Phenomenon The Peace of the Interior Gaze 5. Man in the Dimension of Gift A. The Spousal Meaning of the Body Hermeneutics of the Gift The Original Way of Living the Gift Discovery of the ?Spousal? Meaning of the Body Incarnate Love Revelation and Discovery of the Meaning of Life The Freedom of the Gift ?Own Sake? and ?Self Gift? Spousal Meaning of the Body and the Affirmation of the Person Spousal Meaning of the Body: Rooted in Love B. The Mystery of Original Innocence Grace as a Gift to the Human Heart Innocence and the Exchange of the Gift Giving and Receiving Interpenetrate The Ethos of the Human Body Ethos and the Subjectivity of Man Subjectivity and Purity The Primordial Sacrament and the Body as ?Sign? The First Feast of Humanity John Paul?s Thesis Statement 6. ?Knowledge? and Procreation (Gen 4:1) The Meaning of ?Knowledge? Knowledge Leads to ?a Third?: Fatherhood and Motherhood Eulogy of Femininity Attack on Creative Love and the Perspective of Redemption The Knowledge-Generation Cycle: Life Refuses to Surrender Conclusion of Chapter 1 Christ?s Words Remain Pertinent Today Questions of Human Life Original Man?In Review Chapter 2: Christ Appeals to the Human Heart [Cycle 2: Historical Man] 1. In the Light of the Sermon on the Mount Ethical Meaning: The New Ethos Fulfillment of the Law Anthropological Meaning: Penetrating the ?Heart? 2. The Man of Concupiscence A. The Meaning of Original Shame Casting Doubt on the Gift The Entrance of Shame The Dimensions of Shame Shame Shakes the Foundations of Existence Shame Is Immanent and Relative Shame Has a Twofold Meaning B. Insatiability of the Union Concupiscence Shatters the Original Communion of Persons The Second Discovery of Sex Sin?s Effect on Woman Both Are Subject to Concupiscence C. The Corruption of the Spousal Meaning of the Body Living the Body Flows from the Heart Concupiscence Habitually Threatens Love Loss of the Freedom of the Gift Maintaining the Balance of the Gift The Personal Analogy of Belonging 3. Commandment and Ethos A. It Was Said, ?Do Not Commit Adultery? The Law The Prophets Anthropology and Ethics of the Sign B. ?Whoever Looks with Lust...? The Wisdom Tradition and the New Ethos The Inner State of the Man of Concupiscence External Modesty Penetrating the ?Lustful Look? Concupiscence as a Reduction Psychological Interpretation of Lust ?Eternal? Sexuality C. ?Has Committed Adultery in the Heart...? A Key Change of Direction The Typical Interpretation Requires a Deepening A Clarion Call to Uphold Woman?s Dignity The Real Possibility of Purity of Heart The Guiding Thread of Existence 4. The ?Heart??Accused or Called? A. Condemnation of the Body? Manichaeism Irreconcilable Difference in Mentality Negation of the Body vs. Victory Over Lust B. The ?Heart? Under Suspicion? ?Masters of Suspicion? The Meaning of Life Is at Stake Grace, Faith, and Man?s Real Possibilities Grace Restored Christ?s Call Wells Up from Within C. Eros and Ethos Is Eros Equated with Lust? Longing for the True, Good, and Beautiful The Problem of Erotic Spontaneity Mature Spontaneity and Noble Gratification 5. The Ethos of the Redemption of the Body The Whole Mission of Christ Growing in Holiness Redemption, Not Repression 6. Purity as ?Life According to the Spirit? Blessed Are the Pure in Heart From Physical Purity to Moral Purity ?Flesh? and ?Spirit? according to St. Paul Justification by Faith ?Works of the Flesh? and ?Fruit of the Spirit? The Freedom for which Christ Has Set Us Free Authentic Freedom Purity?Keeping the Body ?in Holiness and Reverence? The Pauline Description of the Body Restoring Harmony in the Body The Need for a Pure Purity Purity as a Virtue and a Gift God?s Glory Shining in the Body Purity and Wisdom: To the Pure All Things Are Pure 7. The Gospel of Purity of Heart?Yesterday and Today Theology and Pedagogy of the Body Spirituality of the Body The Church Applies Christ?s Words Today Appendix: The Ethos of the Body in Art and Media A Perennial Object of Culture The Ethos of the Image and the Ethos of Seeing True Art Versus Pornography In Conclusion Historical Man?In Review Chapter 3: Christ Appeals to the Resurrection [Cycle 3?Eschatological Man and Cycle 4?Continence for the Kingdom] 1. Resurrection of the Body as a Reality of the Future World A. The Synoptics: ?He Is Not the God of the Dead but of the Living? The Third Part of the Triptych Witness to the Power of the Living God The New Meaning of the Body The Fulfillment of Marriage We Will Be ?Like? Angels Spiritualization of the Body Divinization of the Body The Beatific Vision: Seeing God ?Face to Face? The Eschatological Experience The Body: a Witness to Love The Perfection of Subjectivity The Marriage of Divinity and Humanity A New Threshold for Understanding Man Divine-Human Communion Knowledge of God Communion of Saints: Fulfillment of the Spousal Meaning of the Body A Union of Communion A Virginal Communion The Perfect Freedom of the Gift A Development of the Truth about Man Communion Is Fundamental Icon or Idol? B. Pauline Interpretation of the Resurrection in 1 Corinthians 15:42?49 God?s Reply to Death The First Adam Bears Potential for the New Adam The Spiritual Body 2. Continence for the Kingdom of Heaven [Cycle 4] A. The Words of Christ in Matthew 19:11?12 Christ?s Words Mark a Turning Point Voluntary, Supernatural, Virginal Communion Continence for the Kingdom and Spiritual Fruitfulness Joseph and Mary?s Virginal Marriage Marriage and Celibacy Both Flow from the Ethos of Redemption Correct Understanding of the ?Superiority? of Celibacy Solitude, Communion and the Spousal Meaning of the Body Marriage and Celibacy Explain and Complete Each Other Marriage Reveals the Spousal Character of Celibacy Celibacy Reveals the Sacramentality of Marriage Celibacy Anticipates Man?s Definitive Fulfillment Liberation from Concupiscence B. Paul?s Understanding of the Relation Between Virginity and Marriage (1 Cor 7) Christ?s Statement and the Teaching of the Apostles Paul?s Argumentation Does Paul View Marriage as an Outlet for Concupiscence? Why Celibacy Is ?Better? According to St. Paul Both Vocations Are a Call to Holiness The Grace Operative in Married Life Conclusion of Part One The Redemption of the Body and the Hope of Every Day Christ Fulfills the Proto-evangelium The Hope of Every Day The Theology of the Body Is Fundamental Eschatological Man and Continence for the Kingdom?In Review Part II: The Sacrament Chapter 1: The Dimension of Covenant and of Grace [Cycle 5?The Sacramentality of Marriage] 1. Ephesians 5:21?33 A. Introduction And Connection The Text of Ephesians 5:21?23 The Crowning of the Themes of Scripture The Incarnate Person: Body and Sacrament B. Detailed Analysis The Context of Ephesians Modern Sensitivities and St. Paul?s Interpretive Key Mutual Submission ?out of Reverence for Christ? The Spousal Analogy Giving and Receiving the Gift Two Directions of the Spousal Analogy Head and Body Analogy Sacredness of the Body Baptism Expresses Christ?s Spousal Love for the Church Physical Beauty as an Image of Holiness The Husband Must Desire his Wife?s Beauty True Love Recognizes Woman?s True Beauty Spousal Love and the Eucharist This is a Great Mystery-Sacrament Recovering the Broader Meaning of ?Sacrament? Keystone of the Spousal Analogy The Sacrament Proclaims and Accomplishes the Mystery 2. Sacrament and Mystery Christ Reveals the Mystery Hidden for Ages in God The Mode of Gift and the Veils of Faith The Spousal Analogy: From the Old Testament to the New Your Maker Is Your Husband From Isaiah to Ephesians: New Aspects of Revelation The Reality of the Gift, The Meaning of Grace The Single ?Great Sign? Communicates the Radical Character of Grace Conjugal Union in Light of the Incarnation The Foundation of the Sacramental Order Marriage as the Primordial Sacrament The Body Pervaded by Grace The Sacrament of Creation Marriage: Platform for the Realization of God?s Eternal Plans Being Chosen and Being Able to Choose Sin and the Loss of Supernatural Efficacy Sacrament of Creation Fulfilled in Sacrament of Redemption Signs of Creation and Redemption Christ?s Spousal Love Is Unitive and Life-Giving Marriage: Prototype of All the Sacraments Nature and Grace Grace of the Primordial Sacrament Restored Marriage Provides the Basic Structure of Salvation 3. Sacrament and ?Redemption of the Body? A. The Gospel The Anthropology of Redemption The Ethos of Redemption Marriage Reveals God?s Will to Save Us from Sin Marriage Is a Call to ?Life in the Spirit? Overcoming Concupiscence Better to Marry than to Be Aflame with Passion Marital Intercourse as ?Life in the Holy Spirit? Procreation: An Integral Part of Creation and Redemption Marriage and the Eschatological Hope of Redemption B. Ephesians The Spousal and Redemptive Meaning of Love Understanding Human Existence Spousal Love Embraces the Universe The Dimension of Covenant and of Grace?In Review Chapter 2: The Dimension of Sign [Cycle 5?The Sacramentality of Marriage, cont.] 1. ?Language of the Body? and the Reality of the Sign Words ?Made Flesh? The Interplay of Form and Matter The ?Prophetism of the Body? Man: The Author of His Own Language ?Language of the Body? Reread in the Truth ?Language of the Body? and Victory over Concupiscence 2. The Song of Songs Interpreting the Song of Songs Mutual Fascination with the Body Experience of the Beautiful ?Eyes of the Body? and ?Eyes of the Heart? ?My Sister, My Bride? Common Belonging Brings Peace ?A Garden Closed, A Fountain Sealed? The Bride Remains ?Inviolate?: Reciprocal Belonging Sensuality and Spirituality Love is ?Strong as Death? Eros and Agape Limitations in the Language of the Body Sign and Reality 3. When the ?Language of the Body? Becomes the Language of the Liturgy (Reflections on Tobit) Conjugal life and Liturgical Life The Marriage of Tobias and Sarah Love as a Test of Life-or-Death The Prayer of Tobias and Sarah Love is Victorious Because it Prays That Good May Conquer The Spouses? ?Conjugal Creed? Ephesians 5: The Language of the Liturgy Becomes the ?Language of the Body? The Sacramental Sign?Mystery and Ethos Spiritually Mature Sexual Attraction The Dimension of Sign?In Review Chapter 3: He Gave Them the Law of Life as Their Inheritance [Cycle 6?Love and Fruitfulness: Reflections on Humanae Vitae] 1. The Ethical Problem The Moral Norm and the Truth of the ?Language of the Body? Signs and Counter-Signs The Rightness of the Norm and Its Practicability Development of the Council?s Teaching True Pastoral Concern Responsible Parenthood The Truth of the Language of the Body and the Evil of Contraception The Ethical Regulation of Births Two Irreconcilable Views of the Person Self-Mastery and the Freedom of the Gift The Integral Vision of Natural Fertility Regulation Personalistic Interpretation of Natural Law Having a Procreative Attitude 2. Outline of Conjugal Spirituality The Power that Flows from Sacramental ?Consecration? Christian Realism Infallible Means of Conjugal Spirituality Holiness: Logic of the Sincere Gift of Self The Role of Conjugal Love in the Life of Spouses The Poles of the Debate Authentic Love Rejoices with the Truth Conjugal Love Fulfills the Ends of Marriage Analysis of the Virtue of Continence Continence Is a Permanent Moral Attitude Continence Upholds the Incomparable Value of the Body Continence Purifies and Deepens Spousal Union Continence: Arousal and Emotion Balance between Arousal and Emotion The Gift of Reverence Conjugal Spirituality from ?the Beginning? The Exceptional Meaning of the Conjugal Act The Inner Harmony of Marriage Antithesis of Authentic Conjugal Spirituality Ethical, Personal, and Religious Content of Sexual Union ? Conclusion ? Humanae Vitae and the Authentic Progress of Civilization Biblical and Personalistic Aspects Technology, Ethics, and Progress Humanization and Evangelization Love and Fruitfulness: Reflections on Humanae Vitae?In Review Epilogue: The Gospel of the Body and the New Evangelization 1. The Antidote to the Culture of Death Ramifications for All of Theology Mainstream Mysticism Incarnating the Gospel Message Bringing Heavenly Mysteries Down to Earth The Human Question and the Divine Answer 2. The Church?s Response to Modern Rationalism The Spousal Analogy and the ?Analogy of Faith? Man as ?Absolute? or ?Partner of the Absolute? Turn to Christ 3. In Conclusion... Epilogue?In Review Bibliography Index