{"id":5,"date":"2019-06-19T16:25:01","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T16:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cwsite.wpengine.com\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2019-06-22T21:39:35","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T21:39:35","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/christopherwest.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_half  avia-builder-el-first  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><div class='avia-image-container  av-styling-    avia-builder-el-1  avia-builder-el-no-sibling   avia-align-center '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"  ><div class='avia-image-container-inner'><div class='avia-image-overlay-wrap'><img class='avia_image' src='http:\/\/christopherwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/cwHeaderNewLand.jpg' alt='' title='cwHeaderNewLand' height=\"430\" width=\"950\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_half  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_one_half  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><div class='avia-image-container  av-styling-    avia-builder-el-3  avia-builder-el-no-sibling   avia-align-center '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"  ><div class='avia-image-container-inner'><div class='avia-image-overlay-wrap'><img class='avia_image' src='http:\/\/christopherwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/cwBooksNewLand.jpg' alt='' title='cwBooksNewLand' height=\"413\" width=\"341\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"flex_column av_one_half  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_one_half  avia-builder-el-last  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><h1 class=\"CorHead\">Best Selling Author, Speaker, Teacher and World-Renowned Expert in John Paul II\u2019s<br \/>\nTheology of the Body<\/h1>\n<p>Christopher West is a proud husband and father of five. His global lecturing, best-selling books and multiple audio and video programs have also made him the world\u2019s most recognized teacher of John Paul II\u2019s \u201cTheology of the Body\u201d \u2013 a bold, biblical vision of love and sexuality that takes us to the \u201ccor\u201d of what it means to be human. As Founder and President of \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tobinstitute.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Theology of the Body Institute<\/a>, he leads an international outreach devoted to spreading this liberating teaching and empowering others to live and share it. His work has been featured in The New York Times, on ABC News, Fox News, MSNBC, and countless Catholic and Evangelical media outlets.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond his work as a popularizer of the Theology of the Body, Christopher has been teaching graduate and undergraduate courses on the subject since the late 1990s, having served on the faculties of St. John Vianney Theological Seminary in Denver, the Institute for Priestly Formation in Omaha, and as a visiting professor of the John Paul II Institute in Melbourne, Australia. In 2004 he co-founded the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tobinstitute.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Theology of the Body Institute<\/a>\u00a0near Philadelphia, PA and his week-long courses there continue to draw students from around the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"CorSubhead\"><em>Get involved and stay up to date with Christopher West here:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div class='avia-button-wrap avia-button-left  avia-builder-el-6  el_after_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-last  '><a href='https:\/\/tobinstitute.org\/'  class='avia-button   avia-icon_select-no avia-color-theme-color avia-size-large avia-position-left '   ><span class='avia_iconbox_title' >Theology of the Body Institute<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/christopherwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/christopherwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/christopherwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christopherwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christopherwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/christopherwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/christopherwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}