Just love : a framework for Christian sexual ethics /
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New York :
Continuum International Pub. Group,
2006.
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| 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.