Hamilton and Fruitful Tensions: Why JPII’s Big Theological Innovations in 1979 Keep Us Going

(Not a post about power/roles in the Church) The play Hamilton famously challenged our ideas about “casting”…could it also be the key to unlocking the future of Catholic theology? Let’s look at the major innovations in Church teaching from Saint John Paul II in 1979 and how he got us unstuck from a big problem: a theology that had for centuries formally stated women are "a biological defect.”