The Catholic Church on Marital Intercourse: From St. Paul to Pope John Paul II
Robert Obach, “The Catholic Church on Marital Intercourse: From St. Paul to Pope John Paul II”
Lexington Books | 2008 | ISBN: 0739130870 | 226 pages | PDF | 1 MB
Lexington Books | 2008 | ISBN: 0739130870 | 226 pages | PDF | 1 MB
Review
A Journey of Discovery and Understanding, December 12, 2008 By Robert E. Obach
This book, The Catholic Church on Marital Intercourse: From St. Paul to Pope John Paul II, provides a history of the Church's theology of marital sexuality from the first century through the twentieth. For nineteen centuries sexual activity between spouses was acceptable on the basis of procreation and "rendering the marriage debt." Only in the twentienth century did theologians begin to recognize that the dynamics of sexual relating and sexual pleasure are not only good and holy, but also that sexual loving enhances the love of husband and wife for each other. Pope John Paul II has begun the process of articulating a positive "theology of the body," the first of its kind since the beginnings of Christianity.
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