Christopher West, Author at The Imaginative Conservative

About Christopher West

Christopher West is the world’s most recognized teacher of John Paul II’s “Theology of the Body." As Founder and President of The Cor Project, 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. Dr. West has 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 Theology of the Body Institute near Philadelphia, PA and his week-long courses there continue to draw students from around the world.

Art & the New Evangelization: How Beauty Will Save the World

By Christopher West|2024-09-22T16:09:41-05:00September 22nd, 2024|Categories: Art, Beauty, Bruce Springsteen, Timeless Essays|

When I was eight years old I had an experience that set a trajectory for my whole life. I was lying in bed, I had the radio on—this was the 1970s—and Bruce Springsteen comes on with his 70s anthem “Born to Run.” Something broke open in my soul. Something grabbed a hold of me and [...]