1. Freedom to Love
The Theology of the Body
Applied to Our Lives
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2. Table of Contents
A Brief Overview of the Theology of the Body
1. Sex and the Meaning of Existence
2. Understanding the Body as a “Theology”
3. God‟s Mystery & the Spousal Analogy
4. Unmasking the Counterfeits
For Freedom Christ Has Set Us Free
1. What is Freedom
2. The Dependence of Freedom on Truth
3. How Do We Know the Truth?
4. The Freedom for Which Christ Set Us Free
5. The Holy Spirit is the Source of Freedom
Love as I Have Loved You
1. What is Love?
2. Chastity & the Integration of Love
3. Love & the “Unrepeatability” of the Person
Living the Redemption of Sexuality
1. Sex, Lies, & Redemption
2. The “Great Divorce”
3. Integration in Christ
4. Some Practical Points
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3. The Bouillon Cubes

4. True Freedom Serves the Good
2a. “There is no true freedom except in the service
of what is good…The choice to disobey and do evil
is an abuse of freedom and leads to the „slavery of
sin‟”
(CCC, n. 1733).
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5. True Freedom
quot;True freedom is liberation not from the external
constraint that calls me to good, but from the
internal constraint that hinders my choice of the
good.quot;
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6. Fulfillment of the Law
quot;Do not think that I have come to abolish the law. I
have not come to abolish the law; I have come to
fulfill the law.quot;
Matthew 5:17
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7. The MOAB: Mother of All Bouillon Cubes
2c. “The body, and in fact, it alone, is capable of making
visible what is invisible: the spiritual and divine. It was
created to transfer into the visible reality of the world, the
mystery hidden since time immemorial in God, and thus to
be a sign of it” (TB, 76).
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8. What is Love?
What is Love?

9. The Scandal of Freedom
quot;Do not scandalize those
who are not free, with
your freedom.quot;
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10. What is Love?
True Love balances Freedom and Attraction
ATTRACTION
emotion / desire
FREEDOM
will + decision
Fickle/Misguided
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11. What is Love?
True Love balances Freedom and Attraction
FREEDOM
will + decision ATTRACTION
emotion / desire
Cold/Stoic
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12. Attraction
quot;Emotions, feelings, and sensual attraction
constitute only the raw material of love. There exists
a tendency to regard them as their finished form. If
these components are not held together by the
correct gravitational pull, they may add up not to
love, but to its direct opposite.quot;
I knew I was being
used
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13. Love’s Counterfeit
quot;Sometimes what is called love, if subjected to
searching critical examination, turns out to be -
contrary to all appearances - only a form of using
the person.quot;
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14. The Personalistic Norm
Positive Content: Thou Shalt Love
Negative Content: Thou Shalt Not Use
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15. Authentic Love
“I long for you as a good
for me.”
-Lust
“I long for your good.”
-Authentic Love
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16. Love’s Counterfeit
Lust seeks the sensation of sexuality, apart from the
true gift of one's self to the other.
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17. Love Runs Deeper
The truth of love still runs far deeper and wider than
our lustful inclinations and tendencies.
Love calls us to freedom
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18. Pope John Paul the Great
pray for us
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