Bernard J Fleury

Human Sexuality in St. John Paul II and Teilhard de Chardin Bernard J Fleury

Article 1 and the entire e-Book: Know that man, made in the image and likeness of God is a person created for his own sake, not an animal created as a thing to be used by others. Article 2: What if the human is unique among God's creation?Article 3: What if among all living animal bodies, the human body is unique?Article 4: What if our bodies, male and female, reveal who we are scientifically and theologically? What if couples living together before marriage diminishes and all but erases the conjugal act as the consummation of the public verbal commitment sacramental act?Article 5: What if Wojtyla's (later John Paul II) concept of the Theology of the Body has its roots in St. John of the Cross's personalism?Article 6: What if sexual morality is a good example of the effect that the modernist and empiricist view of the body has in terms of understanding Catholic sexual morality?Article 7: What if the human person is a body, rather than merely having a body?Article 8: What if through the incarnation of Jesus, the Son of God, the Word became flesh and dwelt among us? What if through God, the Son's assuming a human body, the body of all humans acquires an infinite value?Article 9: What if original happiness, the beatifying the "beginning" of man (as related in Genesis), whom God created "Male" and "Female", the spousal meaning of the body in its original nakedness: all of this expresses rootedness in love?Article 10: What if St. Paul's Epistles(letters) give evidence of an organic (natural, fundamental) link between purity and love?Article 11: What if through His passion and death, Jesus Christ, restored man's hope of eternal life that was man's destiny from the beginning?This e-Book is meant to be a companion treatise to my self/understanding guide book What is Man? Male and Female. The five philosophers' views in What is Man? answer this question. The view that a person holds regarding human sexuality is directly derived from his or her, answer to the question, What is Man? Male and Female. What does it mean t