@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt7zswgw.8, ISBN = {9780813225951}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7zswgw.8}, abstract = {In the Wednesday catecheses, John Paul II describes and analyzes the human body according to the principles of an adequate anthropology. As shown in the previous chapter, the pope explains the concept of an adequate anthropology as “an understanding and interpretation of man in what is essentially human.”¹ Through a phenomenological concentration on what is characteristic to man—subjectivity, an experience of self, and self-reflection—an adequate anthropology opposes empiricist anthropological reductionism that “reduces man to ‘the world’” and understands man only “with the categories taken from the ‘world,’ that is, from the visible totality of bodies.”²The papal theology}, author = {Agata Rottkamp and Justyna Pawlak and Orest Pawlak}, bookauthor = {Jarosław Kupczak}, booktitle = {Gift and Communion}, pages = {41--92}, publisher = {Catholic University of America Press}, title = {THE BODY THAT REVEALS}, year = {2014} }