ISBN:
9780252035371
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9780252077241
Language:
English
Pages:
VIII, 287 S
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Ill
DDC:
241/.66
Keywords:
Sex Congresses Religious aspects
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Christianity
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Christian ethics Congresses
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Sexual ethics Congresses
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Religion and science Congresses
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Science Congresses Moral and ethical aspects
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Konferenzschrift
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Naturwissenschaften
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Theologie
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Sexualethik
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Geschlechtsunterschied
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Christliche Ethik
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Chicago, Ill.
Abstract:
"God, Sex, Science, Gender: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Christian Ethics" is a timely, wide-ranging attempt to rescue dialogues on human sexuality, sexual diversity, and gender from insular exchanges based primarily on biblical scholarship and denominational ideology. Too often, dialogues on sexuality and gender devolve into the repetition of party lines and defensive postures, without considering the interdisciplinary body of scholarly research on this complex subject. This volume expands beyond the usual parameters, opening the discussion to scholars in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences to foster the development of Christian sexual ethics for contemporary times. Essays by prominent and emerging scholars in the fields of anthropology, sociology, psychology, philosophy, literary studies, theology, and ethics reveal how faith and reason can illuminate our understanding of human sexual and gender diversity. Focusing on the intersection of theology and science and incorporating feminist theory, "God, Sex, Science, Gender" is a much-needed call for Christian ethicists to map the origins and full range of human sexual experience and gender identity. Essays delve into why human sexuality and gender can be so controversial in Christian contexts, investigate the complexity of sexuality in humans and other species, and reveal the implications of diversity for Christian moral theology.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Red hats : Catholic sexual ethics in the face of church authority
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White coats : boundary disputes between scientific and religious authority
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What's all the fuss about? The conflict between science and religion over sexual diversity
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Medieval attitudes toward Philosophia Naturalis in relation to Scientia Moralis
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Patriarchy, purity, and procreativity : developments in Catholic teachings on human sexuality and gender
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Evolutionary biology and sexual diversity
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The evolution of sex
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Interpreting the theology of creation : binary gender in Catholic thought
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"Passing" and identity : a literary perspective on gender and sexual diversity
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Monogamy and sexual diversity in primates : can evolutionary biology contribute to Christian sexual ethics?
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"In God's image" and "male and female" : how a little punctuation might have helped
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Social selection and sexual diversity : implications for Chrisitan ethics
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The triumph of diversity : Hopkins's "Pied Beauty"
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Christ as bride : toward a Christology of diversity
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Gender in heaven : the story of the Ethiopian eunuch in light evolutionary biology
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Conclusion : descriptive and normative ways of understanding human nature
