Description: SINCE 2002, THE SYMPOSIUM NEW WINE, NEW WINESKINS HAS
OFFERED AN OPPORTUNITY for young Catholic moral theologians to
engage in shared work and conversation. Here, the fruits of these
labors are gathered into one collection, which represents the wide
scope of the future of Catholic sexual ethics. This volume offers
the rst collection of a new generation's approaches to Catholic
sexual ethics. The collection displays young scholars with diverse
views, yet whose work moves beyond the impasses that have beset the
eld. The volume offers original and engaging essays on a variety of
topics, from the hook-up culture and dating violence, to
cohabitation and homosexuality, to contraception and natural family
planning, to the promises and pitfalls of ""the theology of the
body."" The authors display a fresh engagement with these issues in
conversation with the Christian tradition and with contemporary
culture. David Cloutier provides an introduction that locates this
work within the past decades of Catholic scholarship, and
articulates new categories for future work. The essays also offer
practical insights and models that will interest pastors and lay
ministers, as well as scholars. Endorsements: ""In this excellent
collection of essays on sexuality and marriage, we see emerging
theological voices effectively move beyond the impasse of a
previous generation. These authors both acknowledge the deep in
uence of contemporary culture on Christian understandings of sex
and marriage, and critically respond with a surprisingly
sophisticated set of theological resources. Alternatively
fascinating and disconcerting, this collection has a real chance to
seriously engage a 'hooked up' and 'porni ed' undergraduate
culture. An excellent resource for teaching."" --JOHN BERKMAN,
Associate Professor of Moral Theology, Regis College, University of
Toronto ""Leaving and Coming Home is a breath of fresh air in
Catholic moral thinking about sexuality. The authors take the
warring personalisms of decades past and present and nest them in
the setting of 'home.' The resulting essays, suitable for use in
both undergraduate and graduate moral theology courses, offer
refreshing takes on hard questions."" --WILLIAM L. PORTIER, Mary
Ann Spearin Chair of Catholic Theology, University of Dayton ""By
countering the trivialization, as well as overly glori ed accounts,
of sex and marriage, the authors of Leaving and Coming Home
convincingly argue that any Christian understanding of sexuality
and marriage must be incorporated into a theology of discipleship
and connected to the practices of the Christian life. Challenging
and engaging, each of the essays offers a liberating alternative to
contemporary notions of sex and marriage by demonstrating that the
fundamental purpose of both is to deepen our ability to love God
and neighbor."" --PAUL J. WADELL, Professor of Religious Studies,
St. Norbert College, De Pere, Wisconsin ""Leaving and Coming Home
offers wide-ranging treatments and fresh perspectives on issues in
sexual ethics, both new and old. The blend of voices from different
points on the theological spectrum is harmonized in a shared
attention to practices--understood not just as sociological
descriptions of human behaviors, but as productive of virtue and
vice within persons and communities. An excellent addition to
college or introductory graduate courses on marriage or sexual
ethics."" --JOHN S. GRABOWSKI, Associate Professor of Moral
Theology/Ethics, The School of Theology and Religious Studies, The
Catholic University of America About the Contributor(s): David
Cloutier is Associate Professor of Theology at Mount St. Mary's
University in Emmitsburg, MD. He is the author of Love, Reason, and
God's Story: An Introduction to Catholic Sexual Ethics (2008), as
well as a number of articles and book chapters on sexual ethics and
moral theology.
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