Just love: a framework for Christian sexual ethics
Opening the questions -- Finding the way -- Why we are here -- New maps -- Problems with the terrain, the task -- The questions and their past -- Sex, morality, and history : theories of interpretation -- Michel Foucault : the historical constitution of desire -- Catherine Mackinnon : historical sil...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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New York [u. a.]
Continuum
2006
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| In: | Year: 2006 |
| Reviews: | Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics. By Margaret A. Farley (2007) (Harvey, A. E., 1930 -)
Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics (2007) (Gudorf, Christine E.) |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Sexual ethics
/ Moral theology
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| Further subjects: | B
Sexual ethics
B Sex Religious aspects Christianity B Sex Religious aspects Catholic Church B Christian Ethics |
| Summary: | Opening the questions -- Finding the way -- Why we are here -- New maps -- Problems with the terrain, the task -- The questions and their past -- Sex, morality, and history : theories of interpretation -- Michel Foucault : the historical constitution of desire -- Catherine Mackinnon : historical silences/gendered violence -- Evolutionary histories : sexuality and change -- Sexual ethics in the west : historical perspective -- Sexuality in antiquity : the legacy of greece and rome -- Judaism : sexuality, morality, and religion -- Christian traditions -- Secular paths : philosophical developments, medical -- Influences -- From the past to the present -- Difficult crossings : diverse traditions -- Cross-cultural perspectives : importance for sexual ethics -- Possibilities of cross-cultural and interreligious awareness -- Obstacles to the search for alternative perspectives -- Colonialist research and its postcolonial critics -- The lessons of "orientalism'' -- Lessons for sexual ethics -- Pre-modern islands of the South Seas -- African cultures -- Sexuality and community -- Gender, marriage, and family -- New interpreters and critics : sustainable African -- Sexualities -- Kamasutra : Hindu textbook on erotic love -- The world of Islam -- Diversity unlimited? -- Sexuality and its meanings -- How the body matters -- Theories of the body -- Transcendent embodiment -- Whether gender matters -- Gender theory and practice -- Christian theologies -- Biology, culture, and experience -- Biology, culture, and more experience -- Whether gender matters -- Sexuality and its meanings -- Elements in sexual experience -- Love, desire, and sexuality -- Just love and just sex : preliminary considerations -- Sexuality and justice -- Alternative frameworks -- Sources for Christian sexual ethics -- Scripture -- Tradition -- Secular disciplines of knowledge -- Contemporary experience -- Love and just love -- Moral norms for a just love -- Love and freedom -- Desire -- Framework for a sexual ethic : just sex -- Justice -- The concrete reality of persons -- Obligating features of personhood -- Norms for just sex -- Do no unjust harm -- Free consent -- Mutuality -- Equality -- Commitment -- Fruitfulness -- Social justice -- Special questions -- An ethic only for adults? -- Sexual relations with oneself -- The negative potential of sex -- Character, faith, and sexual justice -- Patterns of relationship : contexts for just love -- Marriage and family -- Historical and cultural contexts -- Christianity and its influences -- Descriptive and normative questions -- Same-sex relationships -- Theological and ethical sources -- Same-sex relationships and justice -- Sexual orientation : given or chosen -- Divorce and remarriage -- The marriage commitment : making, keeping, changing -- Divorce -- Remarriage |
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| Item Description: | Hier auch späer erschienene, unveränd. Nachdrucke! Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | XIII, 322 S., 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 0-8264-2924-6 978-0-8264-2924-7 0-8264-1001-4 978-0-8264-1001-6 |
