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Embracing Sexuality

Authority and Experience in the Catholic Church

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-70616-3 (ISBN)

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Over the past few decades our experience and understanding of human sexuality has changed remarkably. The women's movement, the gay rights movement, and a growing social tolerance for diverse lifestyles - the landscape in which we view human sexuality - has been greatly altered. Cohabitation, experimental relationships, and remarriage after divorce are all practices that scandalize our grandparents but seem normal to our children. Yet, the mainstream Christian Churches appear to have been little more than bystanders in the midst of this revolution. Roman Catholic teaching on sexual and marital morality has not substantially changed since 1968, the date of Paul VI's encyclical on contraception, Humanae Vitae. This book represents an attempt to initiate a meaningful conversation between the institutional Church and the laity about some of the fundamental and concrete issues involving human sexuality and relationships. Drawing upon both their professional expertise and their personal experience, eleven authors invite the hierarchy and the whole community of the Church to reconsider their understanding and appreciation for this vital dimension of human existence. The first part of the book suggests three different ways to approach the understanding of human sexuality, in terms of relationship, spirituality and our bodily existence. Part two examines three critical but frequently neglected experiences of sexuality, that of women, of young persons and of the homosexual community. Part three takes account of how human sexuality has been evaluated in the eyes of the Christian Churches; and part four considers how the Churches might 'embrace' human sexuality in a manner that speaks to contemporary women and men in the context of their lived experience.

Contents: Understanding Sexuality: Sexuality and interpersonal relationships, Jack Dominian; Spirituality and sexuality, Philip Sheldrake; Bodiliness and sacramentality, Maaike de Haardt. Experiencing Sexuality: The female experience of sexuality, Mary Grey; A young person’s perspective on authority and sexuality, Anna Roper; Authority, sexuality and friendship, Elizabeth Stuart. Evaluating Sexuality: The Catholic Church and sexuality. The tensions of love, freedom and law, James O’Connell; Authority and sexuality in the Protestant tradition, Adrian Thatcher; The development of Catholic tradition and sexual morality, Joseph Selling; Embracing Sexuality: Sexuality: personal, communal, responsible, Lisa Sowle Cahill; Dialogue and institution, Marcella Sires; Marriage and sexuality in the Catholic Church, Mary Grey and Joseph Selling.

Erscheinungsdatum	11.10.2017
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Revivals
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-138-70616-7 / 1138706167
ISBN-13	978-1-138-70616-3 / 9781138706163
Zustand	Neuware