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1 online resource (xxiv, 250 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Abbreviations for Sources; Prologue; "Nature" Defined; Perspectivism versus Relativism; "Nature," Knowledge, and Norms; Conscience; Questions for Reflection; Notes; CHAPTER 1 Sexual Morality in the Catholic Tradition; Historicity; Sexuality and Sexual Ethics in Ancient Greece and Rome; Sexuality and Sexual Ethics in the Catholic Tradition; Reading Sacred Scripture; Old Testament Teaching; New Testament Teaching; The Fathers of the Church; Augustine; The Penitentials; Scholastic Doctrine; The Modern Period; Von Hildebrand and Doms; Second Vatican Council. |
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Papal Birth Control CommissionConclusion; Questions for Reflection; Notes; CHAPTER 2 Unitive Sexual Morality; Conjugal Love and Sexual Intercourse; Multiple Dimensions of Human Sexuality; Chastity; Truly Human and Complementarity; Sexual Orientation Complementarity and Truly Human Sexual Acts: A Reconstructed Complementarity; Holistic Complementarity, Truly Human Sexual Acts, and Sexual Norms; Conclusion; Questions for Reflection; Notes; CHAPTER 3 Marital Morality; Modern Catholic Thought and Marital Morality; Marital Morality and Contraception; Contraception and Historical Contexts. |
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A Renewed Principle of Human Sexuality and ContraceptionTotality and the Conjugal Act; The Inseparability Principle Revisited; Conclusion; Questions for Reflection; Notes; CHAPTER 4 Cohabitation and the Process of Marrying; Cohabitation in the Contemporary West: What the Sciences Tell Us; The Meaning and Nature of Commitment; Betrothal and the Christian Tradition; Historical Considerations; Sociotheological Considerations; Complementarity and Nuptial Cohabitation; Marriage as Sacrament; Catechumenate for Marriage; Conclusion; Questions for Reflection; Notes; CHAPTER 5 Homosexuality. |
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The Bible and HomosexualityHomosexual Orientation and the Bible; Interpreting the Bible on Homosexuality; Magisterial Teaching on Homosexual Acts and Relationships; The Moral Sense of the Christian People and Homosexual Acts; The Morality of Homosexual Acts Reconsidered; Conclusion; Questions for Reflection; Notes; CHAPTER 6 Artificial Reproductive Technologies; Defining Artificial Reproductive Technologies; The CDF's Instruction and ARTs; ARTs and Health Complications among Children; Family and Society: ARTs and the Common Good; Conclusion; Questions for Reflection; Notes; Epilogue. |
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Intrachurch DialogueExtrachurch Dialogue; Questions for Reflection; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y. |
| Summary |
Two principles capture the essence of the Catholic tradition onsexual ethics: that each and every marriage act must remain open to the transmissionof life, and that any human genital act must occur within the framework of marriage. In the Catholic tradition, moral sexual activity is institutionalized within theconfines of marriage and procreation, and sexual morality is marital morality. But theologians Todd Salzman and Michael Lawlercontend that there is a disconnect between many of the Church's absolute sexualnorms and other theological and intellectual developments explicitly recognized ande. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Catholic Church -- Doctrines.
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Catholic Church. |
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Catholic Church -- Doctrines. |
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Sex -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.
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Sex -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church. |
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Sexual ethics.
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Sexual ethics. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Lawler, Michael G.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Salzman, Todd A. Sexual Ethics : A Theological Introduction. Washington : Georgetown University Press, ©2012 9781589019133 |
| ISBN |
9781589019416 (electronic book) |
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1589019415 (electronic book) |
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158901913X |
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9781589019133 |
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9781589019133 |
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