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Sex and Virtue - An Introduction to Sexual Ethics (Paperback)
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Sex and Virtue - An Introduction to Sexual Ethics (Paperback)
Series: Catholic Moral Thought
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Contemporary western culture is awash with ideologies that reduce
sexuality to an outlet for pleasure, an ecstatic form of release
needed for personal fulfillment, or a commodity to be bought and
sold. Many Christians living in such a culture find themselves
uncertain as to how to respond from within churches torn by
controversy, embarrassed by scandal, and thus driven into uneasy
silence on sexual matters. Catholic moral theology, itself at the
epicentre of this controversy over sexual issues since ""Humanae
vitae"", has struggled to respond to the call for renewal issues by
the Second Vatican Council. This book provides a theological
foundation for consideration of the moral dimensions of human
sexuality from a Roman Catholic perspective. Drawing upon key
biblical themes such as covenant, discipleship and beatitude, it
proposes an understanding of covenant fidelity wedded to the virtue
of chastity that provides a suitable framework for a Catholic and
Christian approach to issues of sexuality in a contemporary
context. What is needed to counter dominant cultural ideologies is
a vision of sexuality as integral to the human vocation to
communion as well as attention to the specific practices that
enable persons to grow in moral goodness. This work represents an
original synthesis of biblical categories, the tradition and
language of virtue, and a theological understanding of the human
person. It is also among the first systematic applications of the
renewal of virtue theory in recent decades to issues of sexuality.
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