This important philosophical reflection on love and sexuality
from a broadly Christian perspective is aimed at philosophers,
theologians, and educated Christian readers. Alexander R. Pruss
focuses on foundational questions on the nature of romantic love
and on controversial questions in sexual ethics on the basis of the
fundamental idea that romantic love pursues union of two persons as
one body."One Body" begins with an account, inspired by St. Thomas
Aquinas, of the general nature of love as constituted by components
of goodwill, appreciation, and unitiveness. Different forms of
love, such as parental, collegial, filial, friendly, fraternal, or
romantic, Pruss argues, differ primarily not in terms of goodwill
or appreciation but in terms of the kind of union that is sought.
Pruss examines romantic love as distinguished from other kinds of
love by a focus on a particular kind of union, a deep union as one
body achieved through the joint biological striving of the sort
involved in reproduction. Taking the account of the union that
romantic love seeks as a foundation, the book considers the nature
of marriage and applies its account to controversial ethical
questions, such as the connection between love, sex, and commitment
and the moral issues involving contraception, same-sex activity,
and reproductive technology. With philosophical rigor and
sophistication, Pruss provides carefully argued answers to
controversial questions in Christian sexual ethics. "This is a
terrific--really quite extraordinary--work of scholarship. It is
quite simply the best work on Christian sexual ethics that I have
seen. It will become the text that anyone who ventures into the
field will have to grapple with--a kind of touchstone. Moreover, it
is filled with arguments with which even secular writers on sexual
morality will have to engage and come to terms." --Robert P.
George, Princeton University
""One Body" is an excellent piece of philosophical-theological
reflection on the nature of sexuality and marriage. This book has
the potential to become a standard go-to text for professors and
students working on sex ethics issues, whether in philosophy or
theology, both for the richness of its arguments, and the scope of
its coverage of cases. " --Christopher Tollefsen, University of
South Carolina "Alexander Pruss here develops sound and humane
answers to the whole range of main questions about human sexual and
reproductive choices. His principal argument for the key answers is
very different from the one I have articulated over the past
fifteen years. But his argumentation is at every point attractively
direct, careful, energetic in framing and responding to objections,
and admirably attentive to realities and the human goods at stake."
--John Finnis, University of Oxford
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