The Nuptial Mystery

Commonweal "Everything that pleased fans of John Paul II's Theology of the Body will please them in this book, for it is a sustained and substantial elaboration of the themes concerning marriage enunciated by the late pope." Timothy M. Dolan "The Nuptial Mystery is an excellent work! Renewing a respect and appreciation for lifelong, life-giving, faithful marriage is an urgent pastoral priority today. This book, which combines impeccable theological scholarship with realistic pastoral compassion, is just what we need." Laurence Paul Hemming "Angelo Cardinal Scola is without doubt one of the most powerful and exciting theological voices in the contemporary Catholic Church, and his Nuptial Mystery is a theological synthesis of astonishing depth and subtlety. For anyone wishing to undertake a theology of embodiment, of human relations, and of the incarnation itself, this book is essential reading." William C. McFadden, S.J. "Angelo Scola offers the reader a sustained development of the fundamental insight that sexual difference, love, and fruitfulness are inseparably intertwined. In ways reminiscent of the reflections of John Paul II on the theology of the body, Scola challenges the disincarnate spiritualism and androgynism of first-world societies. He seeks to bear witness to the mysterious unity of every form of human love as a manifestation of divine love."