With clarity and precision Christopher West unpacks the pope's weighty talks and translates them into a much more accessible language.

In this revised and expanded edition of his best-selling Theology of the Body Explained (2003), Christopher West illuminates John Paul II's Theology of the Body. This revised edition incorporates all of the changes discovered by Michael Waldstein's outstanding translation of John Paul II's catechesis: Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body, including the newly discovered addresses on the Song of Songs, Tobit, and Ephesians--unfolded here for the first time.

Theology of the Body Explained makes the perfect companion to the Pope's text. For the first time ever, readers have a commentary that follows the complete series of general audiences, explained in an appealing way. Scholars and average readers alike will find this commentary greatly rewarding.