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Building the Mystical City of God from Womb and Hearth: St. Thomas on Christian Marriage (Part 2)

Tradition and Sanity

We saw in our last post that St. Thomas Aquinas’s view of Christian marriage is both lofty and realistic: he appreciates its sacred signification but he also defends its honest-to-goodness physicality; for him, sexuality is not dirty, as it was for the Manichaeans, but part of God’s good creation—affected by the Fall, to be sure, but still inherently good, beneficial, and holy when exercised within the bounds of a Christian sacramental life. Today, I delve into the good of offspring (proles), and its cosmic and ecclesial significance. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.traditionsanity.com/subscribe