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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782150203321

Autore

Salzman Todd A

Titolo

The sexual person [[electronic resource] ] : toward a renewed Catholic anthropology / / Todd A. Salzman and Michael G. Lawler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : Georgetown University Press, c2008

ISBN

1-58901-726-9

1-4356-6027-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (353 p.)

Collana

Moral traditions series

Altri autori (Persone)

LawlerMichael G

Disciplina

241/.66088282

Soggetti

Sex - Religious aspects - Catholic Church

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Prologue; One: Sexual Morality in the Catholic Tradition: A Brief History; Two: Natural Law and Sexual Anthropology: Catholic Traditionalists; Three: Natural Law and Sexual Anthropology: Catholic Revisionists; Four: Unitive Sexual Morality: A Revised Foundational Principle and Anthropology; Five: Marital Morality; Six: Cohabitation and the Process of Marrying; Seven: Homosexuality; Eight: Artificial Reproductive Technologies; Epilogue; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Two principles capture the essence of the official Catholic position on the morality of sexuality: first, that any human genital act must occur within the framework of heterosexual marriage; second, each and every marriage act must remain open to the transmission of life. In this comprehensive overview of Catholicism and sexuality, theologians Todd A. Salzman and Michael G. Lawler examine and challenge these principles. Remaining firmly within the Catholic tradition, they contend that the church is being inconsistent in its teaching by adopting a dynamic, historically conscious anthropology an