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The Sexual Person: Toward a Renewed Catholic Anthropology
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- 1589012089
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- 9781589012080
- Pub. Date:
- 05/21/2008
- Publisher:
- Georgetown University Press
- ISBN-10:
- 1589012089
- ISBN-13:
- 9781589012080
- Pub. Date:
- 05/21/2008
- Publisher:
- Georgetown University Press
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Overview
While some documents from Vatican II, like Gaudium et spes ("the marital act promotes self-giving by which spouses enrich each other"), gave hope for a renewed understanding of sexuality, the church has not carried out the full implications of this approach. In short, say Salzman and Lawler: emphasize relationships, not acts, and recognize Christianity's historically and culturally conditioned understanding of human sexuality. The Sexual Person draws historically, methodologically, and anthropologically from the best of Catholic tradition and provides a context for current theological debates between traditionalists and revisionists regarding marriage, cohabitation, homosexuality, reproductive technologies, and what it means to be human. This daring and potentially revolutionary book will be sure to provoke constructive dialogue among theologians, and between theologians and the Magisterium.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781589012080 |
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Publisher: | Georgetown University Press |
Publication date: | 05/21/2008 |
Series: | Moral Traditions series |
Edition description: | New Edition |
Pages: | 352 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d) |
Age Range: | 18 Years |
About the Author
Michael G. Lawler is professor emeritus of Catholic theology at Creighton University. He is the author of What Is and What Ought to Be: The Dialectic of Experience, Theology, and Church and Marriage and the Catholic Church: Disputed Questions.
Table of Contents
ForewordCharles E. CurranPrologue
1. Sexual Morality in the Catholic Tradition: A Brief HistoryHistoricitySexuality and Sexual Ethics in Ancient Greece and RomeSexuality and Sexual Ethics in the Catholic TraditionReading Sacred ScriptureThe Fathers of the ChurchThe PenitentialsScholastic DoctrineThe Modern PeriodConclusion
2. Natural Law and Sexual Anthropology: Catholic Traditionalists“Nature” DefinedThe Revision of Catholic Moral TheologyNatural Law and Sexual AnthropologyTraditionalists and Sexual AnthropologyConclusion
3. Natural Law and Sexual Anthropology: Catholic RevisionistsRevisionist Critiques of Traditionalist AnthropologiesKarl Rahner: Transcendental FreedomRevisionists and Sexual AnthropologyConclusion
4. Unitive Sexual Morality: A Revised Foundational Principle and AnthropologyGaudium et Spes and a Foundational Sexual PrincipleThe Relationship between Conjugal Love and Sexual IntercourseMultiple Dimensions of Human SexualityTruly Human and ComplementarityConclusion
5. Marital MoralityMarital Intercourse and MoralityNNLT and Marital MoralityModern Catholic Thought And Marital MoralityMarital Morality and ContraceptionA Renewed Principle of Human Sexuality and ContraceptionConclusion
6. Cohabitation and the Process of MarryingCohabitation in the Contemporary WestBetrothal and the Christian TraditionComplementarity and Nuptial CohabitationConclusion
7. HomosexualityThe Bible and HomosexualityMagisterial Teaching on Homosexual Acts and RelationshipsThe Moral Sense of the Christian People and Homosexual ActsThe Morality of Homosexual Acts ReconsideredConclusion
8. Artificial Reproductive TechnologiesDefining Artificial Reproductive TechnologiesThe CDF Instruction and Artificial Reproductive TechnologiesParental Complementarity, Relational Considerations, and Social EthicsConclusion
Epilogue
What People are Saying About This
This book is a much needed contribution to the contemporary Catholic discussion of sexual ethics. The authors utilize the most recent sociological and psychological data to supplement their careful parsing of the Catholic theology of sex, gender, and embodiment. It is a work that manages to be highly theoretical while at the same time addressing everyday concerns about premarital sex, contraception, homosexuality, divorce and reproductive technology. Lawler and Salzman embrace the model of theology as dialogue and as a result their treatment of both traditionalist and revisionist views about human sexuality is constructive and helpful. They succeed in moving a seemingly stalled conversation forward.
A carefully reasoned, nuanced, well-informed, often inspiring, and innovative book. Bound to be controversial for proposing an alternative to the primarily procreationist, traditionalist sexual anthropology in 'official' or 'tradionalist' Catholic treatments, The Sexual Person mounts a cogent and compelling account for a renewed genuinely Catholic sexual ethic, one widely informed by the social sciences. [This book] represents Catholic theological anthropology and ethics at their very best.
This superb volume courageously explores Catholic teaching on sexual ethics. The authors' exploration of the biological, relational, and spiritual dimensions of human sexuality engages Catholic teaching respectfully, critically, and creatively. The book is a significant contribution to both sexual ethics and moral theology generally.
Salzman and Lawler are accomplished theologians with the stature to confront questions that have become highly inflammatory in the too-often polarized Catholic environment. The result is a piece of extensive, well-researched, and carefully argued scholarship. The authors are respectful, intelligent, honest, thorough, and courageous. They will alarm a few people, enlighten many, and hold all to a new standard of rigor in approaching this very personal and politicized subject.
This book provides the most comprehensive, critical analysis of the Catholic debate on sexual ethics over the past fifty years. Its interpersonal and experiential approach points to a thorough revision of Church teaching on birth control, reproductive technology, premarital sex, and homosexuality.
A bold and brave book! Tightly argued and well-documented, this book lays out an understanding of human sexuality that expresses the profound work that theologians do on behalf of the Church in order to find ever better understandings of what the Church teaches in light of the witness of Scripture, the tradition, and our understanding of human experience.
"Salzman and Lawler are accomplished theologians with the stature to confront questions that have become highly inflammatory in the too-often polarized Catholic environment. The result is a piece of extensive, well-researched, and carefully argued scholarship. The authors are respectful, intelligent, honest, thorough, and courageous. They will alarm a few people, enlighten many, and hold all to a new standard of rigor in approaching this very personal and politicized subject."Lisa Sowle Cahill, J. Donald Monan Professor of Theology, Boston College
"A carefully reasoned, nuanced, well-informed, often inspiring, and innovative book. Bound to be controversial for proposing an alternative to the primarily procreationist, traditionalist sexual anthropology in 'official' or 'tradionalist' Catholic treatments, The Sexual Person mounts a cogent and compelling account for a renewed genuinely Catholic sexual ethic, one widely informed by the social sciences. [This book] represents Catholic theological anthropology and ethics at their very best."John A. Coleman, SJ, Casassa Professor of Social Values, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles
"This book provides the most comprehensive, critical analysis of the Catholic debate on sexual ethics over the past fifty years.Its interpersonal and experiential approachpoints to a thorough revision of Church teaching on birth control, reproductive technology, premarital sex, and homosexuality."Edward C. Vacek, SJ, professor, Department of Moral Theology, Weston Jesuit School of Theology
"This superb volume courageously explores Catholic teaching on sexual ethics. The authors' exploration of the biological, relational, and spiritual dimensions of human sexuality engages Catholic teaching respectfully, critically, and creatively. The book is a significant contribution to both sexual ethics and moral theology generally."Paul Lauritzen, director, Program in Applied Ethics, John Carroll University
"This book is a much needed contribution to the contemporary Catholic discussion of sexual ethics. The authors utilize the most recent sociological and psychological data to supplement their careful parsing of the Catholic theology of sex, gender, and embodiment. It is a work that manages to be highly theoretical while at the same time addressing everyday concerns about premarital sex, contraception, homosexuality, divorce and reproductive technology.
Lawler and Salzman embrace the model of theology as dialogue and as a result their treatment of both traditionalist and revisionist views about human sexuality is constructive and helpful. They succeed in moving a seemingly stalled conversation forward."Aline Kalbian, associate professor, Department of Religion, Florida State University
"A bold and brave book! Tightly argued and well-documented, this book lays out an understanding of human sexuality that expresses the profound work that theologians do on behalf of the Church in order to find ever better understandings of what the Church teaches in light of the witness of Scripture, the tradition, and our understanding of human experience."Richard M. Gula, SS, The Franciscan School of Theology, Graduate Theological Union