The Body In Context

Examines some of the principal arguments and styles of argument which Christians, and particularly the Roman Catholic Church, have advanced in support of Christian standards in sexual ethics. Catholic teaching has sought to present Christian sexual standards and values as reasonabale, as standards which anyone can see to be right if only they think about them in the right way. Arguments have been drawn from both Scripture and from philosophy and experience, the latter being particularly important at a time when the Church can no longer lay down the law, but has to be able to persuade. The author considers whether these arguments are valid or flawed. His study covers such wide-ranging topics as sexual pleasure, the purpose of sex, sexual gestures, marriage, contraception and homosexuality, and in these areeas, and the more specifical sexual issues which he covers, he often finds the Church's case defective. Though the Church has valuable things to say, its supporting arguments can be unconvincing. Better arguments, he claims, are needed, or alternatively the possibility has to be faced that the Church's teaching needs to be modified. But it does need to do more thinking about sex.

שנה

1992

שפה

English

הוצאה

Trinity Press International

מהדורות

3

עמודים

336

ISBN

9780334025252

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata