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GCSE Religious Studies · key term
Pope John Paul II's teaching about the meaning of the human body in God's plan, connecting embodied personhood, being male or female, and relationships of mutual love with creation in God's image.
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Paper 2
John Paul II’s teachings on how the human body expresses God’s purposes for love, sexuality and relationships.
Revise: Love and SexualityPope John Paul II developed the Theology of the Body through a series of teachings delivered between 1979 and 1984. He explored what the human body reveals about God’s purposes for love and relationships.
Specification 2.8 · Paper 3
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Catholic teaching associated with Pope John Paul II about the meaning of the human body, sexual difference and the person's calling to love and self-giving.
Theology of the body, associated with Pope John Paul II, considers what the human body and sexual difference mean for the person's calling to love. It treats a human being as a whole person, not simply a body with biological functions. The body can make invisible love visible through a person's actions and self-giving.
Specification 2.8 · Paper 1, Paper 2, Paper 3
Revise: Gender Prejudice and DiscriminationTheology of the body is Pope John Paul II's teaching about the meaning of the human body in God's plan. In his general audiences, including those of November 1979 and April 1980, he explored Genesis and Jesus' teaching to explain that the body expresses a person: someone with dignity, freedom and responsibility, not an object to be used.
