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Record Nr.

UNINA9910881089403321

Autore

Ballano Vivencio O

Titolo

LGBTQI Inclusivity, Homosexuality, and Same-Sex Marriage in the Catholic Church : Pope Francis’s Synodal Theology, Sociology, and Moral Issues / / by Vivencio O Ballano

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2024

ISBN

9789819740499

9789819740482

Edizione

[1st ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (181 pages)

Disciplina

282

Soggetti

Sex

Religion and sociology

Ethics

Christianity

Catholicism

Gender Studies

Sexuality Studies

Sociology of Religion

Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1 The Book’s Overview -- Chapter 2 Inductive Theology, Homosexuality, and Same-Sex Marriage: A Synodal-Sociological Analysis. Chapter 3 Homosexuality, Same-Sex Union, and LGBTQI Inclusivity in the Catholic Church -- Chapter 4 Reappraising Gender Complementarity and Heterosexual Marriage in the Catholic Church.

Sommario/riassunto

This book employs an experimental approach to critically re-examine the Catholic Church’s traditional teachings on homosexuality, heterosexual marriage, and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersexual (LGBTQI) inclusivity in light of Pope Francis’s inductive synodal theology and modern sociology. With the growing complexity of today’s culture and the advancement of social science research, it argues that the empirical foundations of the traditional



Church’s doctrines on topical moral issues need to be scientifically re-assessed, so as to update them in view of Francis’s synodality and sociological research on gender, sexuality, and same-sex union. Discussion pertaining to whether homosexuality is naturally disordered and whether heterosexuality is the only criterion for Christian marriage remain lingering empirical issues in the Church that require a sociological and inductive synodal analysis, rather than the traditional deductive philosophical and theological method that is largely based on natural law theory. This topical book is of appeal to scholars and students of sociology, theology, as well as religious, biblical, and gender studies.