Just love : a framework for Christian sexual ethics

Just love : a framework for Christian sexual ethics / Margaret A. Farley.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Farley, Margaret A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Continuum International Pub. Group, c2006.
Subjects:
Sex > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Sexual ethics.
Sex > Religious aspects > Catholic Church.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • 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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