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A question of truth : Christianity and homosexuality /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moore, Gareth (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Continuum, 2003.
Subjects:
Catholic Church > Doctrines.
Homosexuality > Religious aspects > Catholic Church.
Catholic Church.
Theology, Doctrinal.
Controversial literature.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Closeted queers in the Vatican
  • Materialism of pro-gays
  • 1. A question of truth
  • The truth and misfortune of gay Christians
  • Truth
  • Truth and tradition
  • Truth and authority
  • Overcoming scepticism
  • 2. "Homosexuality"
  • "Homosexuality," physical and psychological
  • The inadequacy of the CDF's definition of homosexuality
  • Homosexual person
  • Homosexual desire and intensionality
  • The intensionality of desire
  • The intensionality of condemnation
  • 3. The Bible against homosexuality?
  • I. Introduction and Old Testament texts
  • Introduction
  • Use of the Bible in discussing homosexuality
  • The logic of condemnation
  • The concept of homosexuality in the Bible?
  • Genesis 19:1-11
  • Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13
  • Back to Genesis 19
  • Cortese and men of Sodom
  • What about the women?
  • 4. The Bible against homosexuality?
  • II. New Testament texts and summary
  • Romans 1
  • 1 Corinthians 6:9-10
  • 1 Timothy 1:10
  • Further remarks
  • 5. The Bible for heterosexuality?
  • Genesis 1
  • Lawyer, Boyle and May
  • HP
  • The image of God
  • Genesis 2
  • Difficulties in the standard view
  • An alternative view
  • 6. The Bible, love and experience
  • Can gays love
  • Can gays love without struggling against being gay?
  • Is homosexuality a tendency ordered towards an intrinsic moral evil?
  • 7. Aquinas, natural law and sexual natures
  • "nature"
  • Thomas Aquinas
  • Sex, nature and nurture
  • Natural sex, natural language
  • The Bible agin
  • 8. Homosexuality, purpose and happiness
  • Purpose
  • The emblematic importance of penile-vaginal intercourse
  • The purpose of human acts
  • Homosexual acts and homosexual happiness
  • 9. Some modern arguments
  • Germain Grisez
  • Meaning
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography.