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Just love: a framework for Christian sexual ethics
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Publisher
Continuum International Pub. Group
Publication Date
2006
Language
English
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Table of Contents
From the Book
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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9780826429247
9780826410016
9780826410016
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