Making Love Just: Sexual Ethics for Perplexing Times

Making Love Just: Sexual Ethics for Perplexing Times

by Marvin M. Ellison
Making Love Just: Sexual Ethics for Perplexing Times

Making Love Just: Sexual Ethics for Perplexing Times

by Marvin M. Ellison

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Overview

Ethical reflection about sexuality is increasingly controversial, complex, and conflicted. After centuries of conflicting messages from the tradition, Christians are understandably confused about how exactly the good news pertains to sexuality. Using a series of provocative questions, Marvin Ellison, a pioneer in contemporary Christian rethinking of sexuality and sexual ethics, attempts to increase readers’ skills and confidence for engaging in ethical deliberation about sexuality. Redrawing the conventional, rule-based sexual morality, often rigidly and legalistically applied or broadly ignored, entails transcending fear and shame to redraw the sexual map, he argues. Ellison works to affirm a more relationally focused ethical framework, from which to deliberate about premarital and extramarital sex, marriage and divorce, homosexuality, contraception, abortion, spousal abuse, and sex-education. Students and all adults will welcome this book for enabling their personal clarity, approach to relationships, and mindful participation in respectful moral debate.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781451424409
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress, Publishers
Publication date: 07/01/2012
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 176
File size: 495 KB

About the Author

Marvin M. Ellison is Willard S. Bass Professor of Christian Ethics at Bangor Theological Seminary, Maine. He received his doctorate from Union Theological Seminary, New York City, and is an ordained Presbyterian minister. Principal author of the 1991 Presbyterian sexuality study, his works, among others, include Same-Sex Marriage? A Christian Ethical Analysis (2004), and, with coeditor Kelly Brown Douglas, Sexuality and the Sacred (2010).

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