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Christopher West
146 books234 followersChristopher West is a research fellow and faculty member of the Theology of the Body Institute. He is also one of the most sought after speakers in the Church today, having delivered more than 1000 public lectures on 4 continents, in more than a dozen countries, and in over 200 American cities. His books – Good News About Sex & Marriage, Theology of the Body Explained, and Theology of the Body for Beginners – have become Catholic best sellers.
Christopher has also lectured on a number of prestigious faculties, offering graduate and undergraduate courses at St John Vianney Seminary in Denver, the John Paul II Institute in Melbourne, Australia, and Creighton University’s Institute for Priestly Formation in Omaha. Hundreds of thousands have heard him on national radio programs and even more have seen him defending the faith on programs such as Scarborough Country, Fox and Friends, and At Large with Geraldo Rivera. Of all his titles, Christopher is most proud to call himself a devoted husband and father. He and his wife Wendy have five children and live in Lancaster County, PA.
Christopher has also lectured on a number of prestigious faculties, offering graduate and undergraduate courses at St John Vianney Seminary in Denver, the John Paul II Institute in Melbourne, Australia, and Creighton University’s Institute for Priestly Formation in Omaha. Hundreds of thousands have heard him on national radio programs and even more have seen him defending the faith on programs such as Scarborough Country, Fox and Friends, and At Large with Geraldo Rivera. Of all his titles, Christopher is most proud to call himself a devoted husband and father. He and his wife Wendy have five children and live in Lancaster County, PA.
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June 29, 2015
Simply amazing. Calling Catholic couples to aspire to a love greater than western culture promotes, Good News provides detailed, theological and yet practical explanations for Church teachings on a variety of topics including contraception, non-marital sex, sex for pleasure within marriage (spoiler: totally not a bad thing), masturbation, homosexuality, and chastity. It's a good read for single, dating, engaged, or married men and women searching for the real meaning behind their sexuality, how to achieve satisfaction in our confusing world, and how to fulfill God's call to love as he does in the process.
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June 17, 2023
This is truly a travesty of Christian thought.
It bases it’s claims of toddler logic.
Basing you ethics on bodily functions is already a shaky starting point but when you argue that because sex can be procreative that it must be you lose what little credibility you might have had.
It’s crackpot theory stacked on top of disproven ideas of gender, stacked on general sociological ignorance stacked on political jostling.
It contained very little in the way of scriptural evidence for its many claims and many of those are irrelevant or misapplied.
It might be a good primer for background knowledge on the Catholic sub-types of Puritanism, sexism and homophobia but it’s not a serious exploration of ethics in most cases.
It bases it’s claims of toddler logic.
Basing you ethics on bodily functions is already a shaky starting point but when you argue that because sex can be procreative that it must be you lose what little credibility you might have had.
It’s crackpot theory stacked on top of disproven ideas of gender, stacked on general sociological ignorance stacked on political jostling.
It contained very little in the way of scriptural evidence for its many claims and many of those are irrelevant or misapplied.
It might be a good primer for background knowledge on the Catholic sub-types of Puritanism, sexism and homophobia but it’s not a serious exploration of ethics in most cases.
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