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Praised be Jesus and Mary!
The What
A Disease
Our culture today is in much need of repair and renewal. Family life and sexuality in particular are falling apart to such a point that divorce, cohabitation, pornography contraception, and abortion are all common place in our homes. What is this doing to society? Has it increased the moral nature of society? Has it made people's lives easier and happier? Has it put an end to wars, division, rape, violence against women, domestic abuse, suicide, illegitimate children, and AIDS just to name a few? Well, need only look around to see that these things have only increased in the past 40 years.
The Cure
What is the cure to this disease which has ravaged our culture? The Theology of the Body by John Paul II. As the Pope's biographer George Weigel puts it, the Theology of the Body is a "kind of theological time bomb set to go off with dramatic consequences, sometime in the third millennium of the Church" and will "shape the Church's theology, preaching, and religious education." This revolutionary teaching about human being's sexuality has such power to re-orient our lives back towards God. Today, the culture's view of sex is totally backwards; it takes something that is sacred and life-giving and turns it into something base and entirely sterile.
It was not so in the beginning. God created humans to be sexual beings that image the Divine Love of the Blessed Trinity. Yet, after the Fall, we have lost this original design for sex and are constantly fighting the temptations of the Devil, who wants us to view sex as a selfish act designed for self-gratification. However, in the redeeming act of Jesus Christ, the Word made flesh, we are able to regain that original design for sexuality. Through Christ, we can return to sexuality as it was meant to be. This is the Theology of the Body.
Our Mission
This is our mission with this blog. We desire to reveal to the world this life-giving teaching of John Paul II in hopes to bring more and more people back to Christ through a proper view of sexuality and the world. We will do so by offering personal reflections and testimony on the Theology of the Body and how it has affected our own lives. Various contemporary topics will be discussed as well and brought to light using the Theology of the Body. We are not experts by any means; so our analysis won't be perfect, but we will try our best to give the world what it needs: a proper vision of the body and sexuality.
Why the Title?
Inflated tires is a reference to an analogy used by Christopher West; one of the most influential interepreters of JPII's Theology of the Body. He says that since the Fall, we are all driving around with flat tires and so often we look around and see everybody else with flat tires and think nothing is wrong; in other words, our inverted view of sex becomes normalized and we think it is how it is supposed to be. Yet, God wishes to "inflate our tires" so that we can experience sexuality as it was in the beginning. So we should desire to "inflate our tires" with the "inspiration" of the Holy Spirit through the genius of the Theology of the Body.
Come. Inflate your tires!
Praised be Jesus and Mary!
The What
A Disease
Our culture today is in much need of repair and renewal. Family life and sexuality in particular are falling apart to such a point that divorce, cohabitation, pornography contraception, and abortion are all common place in our homes. What is this doing to society? Has it increased the moral nature of society? Has it made people's lives easier and happier? Has it put an end to wars, division, rape, violence against women, domestic abuse, suicide, illegitimate children, and AIDS just to name a few? Well, need only look around to see that these things have only increased in the past 40 years.
The Cure
What is the cure to this disease which has ravaged our culture? The Theology of the Body by John Paul II. As the Pope's biographer George Weigel puts it, the Theology of the Body is a "kind of theological time bomb set to go off with dramatic consequences, sometime in the third millennium of the Church" and will "shape the Church's theology, preaching, and religious education." This revolutionary teaching about human being's sexuality has such power to re-orient our lives back towards God. Today, the culture's view of sex is totally backwards; it takes something that is sacred and life-giving and turns it into something base and entirely sterile.
It was not so in the beginning. God created humans to be sexual beings that image the Divine Love of the Blessed Trinity. Yet, after the Fall, we have lost this original design for sex and are constantly fighting the temptations of the Devil, who wants us to view sex as a selfish act designed for self-gratification. However, in the redeeming act of Jesus Christ, the Word made flesh, we are able to regain that original design for sexuality. Through Christ, we can return to sexuality as it was meant to be. This is the Theology of the Body.
Our Mission
This is our mission with this blog. We desire to reveal to the world this life-giving teaching of John Paul II in hopes to bring more and more people back to Christ through a proper view of sexuality and the world. We will do so by offering personal reflections and testimony on the Theology of the Body and how it has affected our own lives. Various contemporary topics will be discussed as well and brought to light using the Theology of the Body. We are not experts by any means; so our analysis won't be perfect, but we will try our best to give the world what it needs: a proper vision of the body and sexuality.
Why the Title?
Inflated tires is a reference to an analogy used by Christopher West; one of the most influential interepreters of JPII's Theology of the Body. He says that since the Fall, we are all driving around with flat tires and so often we look around and see everybody else with flat tires and think nothing is wrong; in other words, our inverted view of sex becomes normalized and we think it is how it is supposed to be. Yet, God wishes to "inflate our tires" so that we can experience sexuality as it was in the beginning. So we should desire to "inflate our tires" with the "inspiration" of the Holy Spirit through the genius of the Theology of the Body.
Come. Inflate your tires!
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