The Language of Sexual Love

Christopher West

Thursday, 03 Mar 2005 at 7:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union

Christopher West is widely recognized for his work popularizing John Paul II's theology of the body and his books Good News About Sex & Marriage

and Theology of the Body Explained. He teaches the theology of the body at St. John Vianney Theological Seminary in Denver, the Institute of Priestly Formation at Creighton University in Omaha, and at the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family in Melbourne, Australia. He has earned both a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from the University of Maryland and a Master of Theological Studies from the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage & Family in Washington, D.C.

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