I Sing the [Theology of the] Body Electric [Extended]

Attention, Korrektiv Summer Reading Klub! Friend of Korrektiv IC done went and wrote a book!

124037-0a5dd56f0c52428590835609fe4d030aSigned copies here. Unsigned copies (plus excerpt) here. Amazonian copies here. Rally, Korrektiv, rally!

Pope John Paul II expected theologians to expand their insights of the 129 lectures given during his Wednesday audiences in St. Peter’s Square and Paul VI Audience Hall between September 1979 and November 1984. However, his integrated vision of the human person — body, soul, and spirit — has rarely gone beyond the popular topics of moral theology associated with sexuality and marriage.

Now, Susan Windley-Daoust, a passionate enthusiast of the theology of John Paul II, devoted spiritual director, and popular Assistant Professor of Theology at St. Mary’s University of Minnesota, extends the Theology of the Body to what it means to be human during the experiences of childbirth, impairment, and dying. Are there spiritual signs in these bodily events that are central to the human experience? Oh yes! And the signs mysteriously and wonderfully point to God.

Comments

  1. Me first!

    And I can already tell the calamine will not be necessary!

    JOB

  2. Angelico Nguyen, Esq., OP says

    That settles the Manichees!

  3. Jonathan Potter says

    A non-ironic hurrah for our professor friend!

  4. Ironic Catholic says

    Aw, thanks, everyone. I’m excited about the arguments, I mean conversations, that may come out of this.

    JOB, if you order, I *will* send calamine in your package just in case.

  5. Looks great.

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