The Method and the Philosophical Background of Some Concepts in the Wednesday Catechesis of Saint John Paul II dedicated to the Study of the «Theology of the Body». A Contribution to Its Interpretation

Abstract

The consideration of the human experience is important for the theological anthropology because it allows to study its object, the human, in a deeper way, reaching the beginning of the humankind, its Genesis. The same thing proposes John Paul II when he starts which himself called «the theology of the body» following Christ’s words about marriage when being asked by the pharisees about the divorce’s lawfulness: “But it was not like that from the beginning...”