How have criticisms of your work changed how you teach TOB? What is the "disinterested gift of self"? Is hell real?
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This week’s questions:
Q1: What are some of the lessons you’ve learned about how you present TOB from listening to your critics? How have you changed your approach based on feedback you’ve received?
Q2: What is the “disinterested gift of self”?
Q3: Is there really a place called hell? Or is hell what we experience when body and soul are divided?
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Resources mentioned this week:
Gaudium et Spes (http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19651207_gaudium-et-spes_en.html) - Christopher references Chapter 24 in this episode
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