| Description |
xviii, 406 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Notes on historical grounding : beyond sexual essentialism / Carter Heyward -- Sexuality and Christian ethics : how to proceed / Lisa Sowle Cahill -- New Testament sexual ethics and today's world / L. William Countryman -- Sexual ethics / Margaret A. Farley -- Uses of the erotic : the erotic as power / Audre Lorde -- Wonder, eroticism, and enigma / Paul Ricoeur -- Sleeping like spoons : a question of embodiment / John Giles Milhaven -- The sexuality of Jesus and the human vocation / Joan H. Timmerman -- While love is unfashionable : ethical implications of Black spirituality and sexuality / Toinette M. Eugene -- The Christian mind and the challenge of gender relations / Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen -- Pain and pleasure : avoiding the confusions of Christian tradition in feminist theory / Beverly Wildung Harrison, Carter Heyward -- The moral significance of female orgasm : toward sexual ethics that celebrates women's sexuality / Mary D. Pellauer -- Lovingly lesbian : toward a feminist theology of friendship / Mary E. Hunt -- Explaining men / Philip Culbertson -- Men's studies, feminist theology, and gay male sexuality / J. Michael Clark -- Common decency : a new Christian sexual ethics / Marvin M. Ellison -- Sexuality and social policy / Beverly Wildung Harrison -- Appropriate vulnerability / Karen Lebacqz -- Sex before marriage / Monica Furlong -- Sex within marriage / Jack Dominian -- Celibate passion / Janie Gustafson -- Persons with disabilities / Office of the General Assembly, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) -- The change of life / Penelope Washbourn -- Older adults / Office of the General Assembly, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) -- AIDS, shame, and suffering / Grace Jantzen -- AIDS, high-risk behaviors, and moral judgments / Earl E. Shelp -- Violence against women : the way things are is not the way they have to be / Marie M. Fortune -- Refusing to be "good soldiers" : an agenda for men / Marvin M. Ellison -- Pornography : an agenda for the churches / Mary D. Pellauer -- Homosexuality and the religious life : a historical approach / John Boswell -- Sources for body theology : homosexuality as a test case / James B. Nelson -- Homophobia, heterosexism, and pastoral practice / Rosemary Radford Ruether -- Church at the margins / Dan Spencer |
| Summary |
This volume is rooted in two convictions: (1) sexuality is far more comprehensive and more fundamental to our existence than simply genital sex and (2) sexuality is intended by God to be neither incidental nor detrimental to our spirituality but a fully integrated and basic dimension of that spirituality. The articles address what our sexual experience reveals about God, the way we understand the gospel, and the ways we read Scripture and tradition and attempt to live faithfully.--From publisher's description |
| Analysis |
Sex Religious Christianity |
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Sex - Religious aspects - Christianity |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Sex -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Ethics.
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Gender Identity.
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Religion and Sex.
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Sex.
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| Author |
Longfellow, Sandra P.
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Nelson, James B.
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| LC no. |
93039390 |
| ISBN |
0664255299 (alk. paper) |
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