"Printed in the United States of America, November 1990". -- verso of t.-p.
"In this vivid, richly documented report, Dr. Ranke-Heinemann proves that for most of its twenty centuries the Catholic Church (as the principal voice and institutional focus of worldwide Christianity) has been cruelly manipulating and mutilating the sexuality of believers. From the Apostle Paul to Pope John Paul II, the Church has denigrated sex, degraded women, and championed a perverse ideal of celibacy". -- front dust jacket blurb.
Contents: Introduction: The District Court's Jesus -- Non-Christian Roots of Christian Sexual Pessimism -- The Ancient Taboo Against Menstrual Blood and Its Christian Consequences -- The New Testament, and How It Was Misunderstood: The Virgin Birth, Celibacy, and the Remarriage of Divorced Persons -- The Church Fathers Till Augustine -- Family Planning in Antiquity: Infanticide, Abortion, Contraception -- Augustine -- The Evolution of Celibacy -- Celibates' Fear of Women -- The Suppression of Women by Celibates -- Lay People into Monks -- Penitentials and Punishment Tables -- Early Scholasticism, Part I: Marriage of the Lascivious and Josephite Marriage -- Early Scholasticism, Part II: Abelard's Opposition: A Tale of Woe -- Coitus Reservatus: The Recipe for Sinless Sex -- The Thirteenth Century: Golden Age of Theology and Peak of Misogynistic Slander -- Thomas Aquinas: Lumen Ecclesiae ("The Light of the Church") -- The Heightened Campaign Against Contraception ("Unnatural Sex") and Its Legal Consequences in the Church, from the Middle Ages to the Present -- Incest -- Spells for Impotence, Satanic Loves, Witches and Changelings -- The Council of Trent and Pope Sixtus the Momentous -- Luther and His Influence on Catholic Sexual Morality -- The Jansenists and Jesuit Morality -- Contraception from 1500 to 1750 -- John Paul II and Sex for Pleasure -- The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: The Age of "Birth Regulation" -- Abortion -- Onanism -- Homosexuality -- The Moral Theology of the Twentieth Century -- Notes on Mariology -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
Religion and artificial reproduction : an inquiry into the Vatican "Instruction on Respect for Human Life in Its Origin and on the Dignity of Human Reproduction"
Contents: Preface -- A Review of Artificial Reproduction -- Sexuality, Marriage, and Parenthood: The Catholic Tradition -- An Overview of the Instruction -- A Comparative Analysis -- The Instruction as Roman Catholic Moral Teaching -- Conclusions -- Appendix: Instruction on Respect for Human Life in Its Origin and on the Dignity of Procreation dated 22 February 1987 -- Notes.
"The authors are leading Catholic lay ethicists". -- dust jacket blurb.
"This is the ninth book in the series New Studies in Christian Ethics. It faces some of the most difficult areas within the discipline -- those concerned with sex and gender in modern society". -- General editor's preface, p. xi.
"This book endorses feminist critiques of gender, yet upholds the insight of traditional Christianity that sex, commitment, and parenthood are fulfilling human relations. Their unity is a positive ideal, though not an absolute norm. Women and men should enjoy equal personal respect and social power, which excludes patriarchy". -- p. [i].
"This project is part of the Religion, Culture and Family Project, directed by Don Browning, Alexander Campbell Professor of Ethics and the Social Sciences in the Divinity School of the University of Chicago and funded by the Lilly Foundation and the University of Chicago". -- Acknowledgments.
Contents: General editor's preface / Robin Gill -- Acknowledgments -- Sex, gender, and the problem of moral argument -- Feminism and foundations -- Particular experiences, shared goods -- "The body" in context -- An interlude and a proposal -- Sex, gender, and early Christianity -- Sex, marriage, and family in Christian tradition -- The new birth technologies and public moral argument -- Concluding reflections -- Notes -- Index.
"This is the ninth book in the series New Studies in Christian Ethics. It faces some of the most difficult areas within the discipline -- those concerned with sex and gender in modern society". -- General editor's preface, p. xi.
"This book endorses feminist critiques of gender, yet upholds the insight of traditional Christianity that sex, commitment, and parenthood are fulfilling human relations. Their unity is a positive ideal, though not an absolute norm. Women and men should enjoy equal personal respect and social power, which excludes patriarchy". -- p. [i].
"This project is part of the Religion, Culture and Family Project, directed by Don Browning, Alexander Campbell Professor of Ethics and the Social Sciences in the Divinity School of the University of Chicago and funded by the Lilly Foundation and the University of Chicago". -- Acknowledgments.
Contents: General editor's preface / Robin Gill -- Acknowledgments -- Sex, gender, and the problem of moral argument -- Feminism and foundations -- Particular experiences, shared goods -- "The body" in context -- An interlude and a proposal -- Sex, gender, and early Christianity -- Sex, marriage, and family in Christian tradition -- The new birth technologies and public moral argument -- Concluding reflections -- Notes -- Index.
Contents: Foreward [sic] / John Allan Loftus, Executive Director -- Sexual Abuse in Church: A Quest for Understanding.
Contents divided into sections: Why Has "The Church" Done Nothing ? -- Is This A "New" Problem ? -- Why Do People Behave This Way ? -- Pedophilia -- Diagnostic considerations -- A continuum of explanations -- Can These People Be Treated Successfully ? -- Is Mandatory Celibacy the Problem ? -- What Do We Do To Prevent This from Ever Happening Again ? -- Conclusion -- References.
Offprint of nine articles by eight authors on sexuality and sexual ethics. Original articles were published in a series entitled "The Church and Sexual Ethics : After the Revolution" which appeared in the "Christian Century" between February 1987 and April 1988.
Contents: Preface -- Reuniting Sexuality and Spirituality / James B. Nelson -- Homosexuality: Challenging the Church to Grow / John J. McNeill -- Appropriate Vulnerability: A Sexual Ethic for Singles / Karen Lebacqz -- Pornography: An Agenda for the Church / Mary Pellauer -- Teenage Sexuality and Public Morality / Allen J. Moore -- Sexual and Family Violence: Breaking the Silence / Lois Gehr Livezey -- Roman Catholic Sexual Ethics: A Dissenting View / Charles E. Curran -- Male Sexuality: Moving Beyond the Myths / Merle Longwood -- Needed: A Continuing Sexual Revolution / James B. Nelson -- Notes on Contributors.
Offprint of nine articles by eight authors on sexuality and sexual ethics. Original articles were published in a series entitled "The Church and Sexual Ethics : After the Revolution" which appeared in the "Christian Century" between February 1987 and April 1988.
Contents: Preface -- Reuniting Sexuality and Spirituality / James B. Nelson -- Homosexuality: Challenging the Church to Grow / John J. McNeill -- Appropriate Vulnerability: A Sexual Ethic for Singles / Karen Lebacqz -- Pornography: An Agenda for the Church / Mary Pellauer -- Teenage Sexuality and Public Morality / Allen J. Moore -- Sexual and Family Violence: Breaking the Silence / Lois Gehr Livezey -- Roman Catholic Sexual Ethics: A Dissenting View / Charles E. Curran -- Male Sexuality: Moving Beyond the Myths / Merle Longwood -- Needed: A Continuing Sexual Revolution / James B. Nelson -- Notes on Contributors.