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 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.