These audiences were collectively published in English as The Theology of the Body: Human Love in the Divine Plan (Boston: Pauline Books and Media, 1997). A more recent critical edition has been published under the title Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body (Boston: Pauline Books and Media, 2006). In this article references to passages from the Theology of the Body (abbreviated TOB) will be to the more recent 2006 edition, citing the general audiences according to how they are numbered in that volume.
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Witness to Hope (New York: HarperCollins, 1999), 343.
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Among many articles and lectures delivered on the theology of the body Christopher West has written: The Good News About Sex and Marriage: Answers to Your Honest Questions About Catholic Teaching (Ann Arbor, MI: Servant Publications, 2000): Theology of the Body Explained: A Commentary on John Paul II's “Gospel of the Body” (Boston: Pauline Books and Media, 2003); and Theology of the Body for Beginners: A Basic Introduction to Pope John Paul II's Sexual Revolution (West Chester, PA: Ascension Press, 2004).
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Catechism of the Catholic Church (hereafter CCC), no. 2333.
