Gendering Christian Ethics

Author : Lisa Sowle Cahill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1996-08-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521578485

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Sex, Gender, and Christian Ethics by Lisa Sowle Cahill Pdf

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. In reply to feminist critics of oppressive gender and sex norms and to communitarian proponents of Christian morality, Cahill argues that effective intercultural criticism of injustice requires a modest defence of moral objectivity. She thus adopts a critical realism as its moral foundation, drawing on Aristotle and Aquinas. Moral judgment should be based on reasonable, practical, prudent and cross-culturally nuanced reflection on human experience. This is combined with a New Testament model of community, centred on solidarity, compassion and inclusion of the economically or socially marginalised.

Author : Jenny Daggers
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781443843546

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Gendering Christian Ethics by Jenny Daggers Pdf

Gendering Christian Ethics brings together ethical reflections by a new generation of European and American researchers. Contributors are well versed in feminist theology and feminist theory; chapters build on foundations laid by pioneers who first raised questions of gender and Christianity. Christian ethics have a bearing on the conduct of Christian theology, church or institution, and on distinctive Christian ways of engaging with the wider world. Gendering Christian Ethics addresses these inner and outer dynamics.

Author : Patricia Beattie Jung,Aana Marie Vigen,John Anderson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Christian ethics
ISBN : 9780252077241

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God, Science, Sex, Gender by Patricia Beattie Jung,Aana Marie Vigen,John Anderson Pdf

This text is a timely, wide-ranging attempt to rescue dialogues on human sexuality, sexual diversity, and gender from insular exchanges based primarily on biblical scholarship and denominational ideology.

Author : Adrian Thatcher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781108839488

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Gender and Christian Ethics by Adrian Thatcher Pdf

Provides strong theological arguments for replacing the binary understanding of gender, and for the embracing of sexual minorities.

Author : Patricia Beattie Jung,Aana Marie Vigen
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780252047275

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God, Science, Sex, Gender by Patricia Beattie Jung,Aana Marie Vigen Pdf

God, Sex, Science, Gender: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Christian Ethics is a timely, wide-ranging attempt to rescue dialogues on human sexuality, sexual diversity, and gender from insular exchanges based primarily on biblical scholarship and denominational ideology. Too often, dialogues on sexuality and gender devolve into the repetition of party lines and defensive postures, without considering the interdisciplinary body of scholarly research on this complex subject. This volume expands beyond the usual parameters, opening the discussion to scholars in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences to foster the development of Christian sexual ethics for contemporary times. Essays by prominent and emerging scholars in the fields of anthropology, sociology, psychology, philosophy, literary studies, theology, and ethics reveal how faith and reason can illuminate our understanding of human sexual and gender diversity. Focusing on the intersection of theology and science and incorporating feminist theory, God, Science, Sex, Gender is a much-needed call for Christian ethicists to map the origins and full range of human sexual experience and gender identity. Essays delve into why human sexuality and gender can be so controversial in Christian contexts, investigate the complexity of sexuality in humans and other species, and reveal the implications of diversity for Christian moral theology. Contributors are Joel Brown, James Calcagno, Francis J. Catania, Pamela L. Caughie, Robin Colburn, Robert Di Vito, Terry Grande, Frank Fennell, Anne E. Figert, Patricia Beattie Jung, Fred Kniss, John McCarthy, Jon Nilson, Stephen J. Pope, Susan A. Ross, Joan Roughgarden, and Aana Marie Vigen.

Author : Mary Jo Iozzio,Patricia Beattie Jung
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781626165311

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Sex and Gender by Mary Jo Iozzio,Patricia Beattie Jung Pdf

Sex and Gender: Christian Ethical Reflections contains some of the subject’s most important analyses in recent decades. The collection covers a wide range of topics: same-sex marriage, sexual minorities and biblical interpretation, sex and power, sexual harassment and sexual abuse, HIV/AIDS and prevention strategy, the military and masculinities, mobile porn and sexting, human trafficking, moral discernment, and more. Contributors represent various theological traditions and draw on scriptural texts as well as such disciplines as philosophy, sociology, psychology, and the life sciences. Each essay is followed by a set of discussion questions—for the classroom or for students to use as an assignment outline—and suggestions for further reading and research. Teachers and students of Christian ethics will appreciate this multidisciplinary approach to one of the most divisive and controversial issues in contemporary culture.

Author : Lisa Sowle Cahill
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Religion
ISBN : 145141305X

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Between the Sexes by Lisa Sowle Cahill Pdf

The basis for a Christian sexual ethic, says Cahill, is a correlation of four sources: Scripture, Christian tradition (of faith, theology, and practice), philosophy, (normative accounts), and the empirical sciences (descriptive accounts).

Author : Kathy Rudy
Publisher : Beacon Press (MA)
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015039055259

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Sex and the Church by Kathy Rudy Pdf

In a provocative reexaminatin of the ethics of family, community, and sex, the author contends that the Christian right's campaign against homosexuality has come to limit the agenda for American Christianity as a whole. "We should be asking not whether gay people should be allowed to fit in, but rather which historically gay practices can help transform the schismatic, failing church today".

Author : Francis Watson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781139429788

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Agape, Eros, Gender by Francis Watson Pdf

Issues of gender and sexuality have recently come to the fore in all humanities disciplines, and this book reflects this broad interdisciplinary situation, although its own standpoint is broadly theological. In contrast to many contemporary feminist theologies, gender and sexuality (eros) are here understood within a distinctively Christian context characterized by the reality of agape - the New Testament's term for the comprehensive divine-human love that includes the relationship of man and woman within its scope. The central problem is concern with key Pauline texts relating to gender and sexuality (1 Cor. 11, Rom. 7, Eph. 5), texts whose influence on western theology and culture has been enduring and pervasive. They are read here in conjunction with later theological and non-theological texts that reflect that influence - ranging from Augustine and Barth to Virginia Woolf, Freud and Irigaray.

Author : Susan Parsons
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2001-10-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0631215174

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The Ethics of Gender by Susan Parsons Pdf

The Ethics of Gender investigates the impact of thinking with gender on modern ethics, and considers the insights that postmodern gender theory might bring to the ethical project.

Author : Susan Frank Parsons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1996-02-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521468205

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Feminism and Christian Ethics by Susan Frank Parsons Pdf

Feminists are aware of the diversity of thinking within their own tradition, and of the different approaches to moral questions in which that is manifest. This book describes and analyses that diversity by distinguishing three distinct paradigms of moral reasoning to be found within feminism. Using the writings of feminists, the major strengths and weaknesses of each theory are considered, so that creative dialogue between them can be encouraged. Three common themes are drawn out - which are also on the agenda of new developments in philosophical and Christian ethics: the search for an appropriate universalism, the possibility of a redemptive community and the development of a new humanism. Feminists may be encouraged, through this account of their considerable scholarship in ethical thinking, to contribute to these changes with their special concern for the lives and the fulfilment of women.

Author : Margaret Farley
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Christian ethics
ISBN : 9781608335558

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Changing the Questions by Margaret Farley Pdf

Author : Megan K. DeFranza
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467442954

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Sex Difference in Christian Theology by Megan K. DeFranza Pdf

How different are men and women? When does it matter to us -- or to God? Are male and female the only two options? In Sex Difference in Christian Theology Megan DeFranza explores such questions in light of the Bible, theology, and science. Many Christians, entrenched in culture wars over sexual ethics, are either ignorant of the existence of intersex persons or avoid the inherent challenge they bring to the assumption that everybody is born after the pattern of either Adam or Eve. DeFranza argues, from a conservative theological standpoint, that all people are made in the image of God -- male, female, and intersex -- and that we must listen to and learn from the voices of the intersexed among us.

Author : Margaret Farley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008-02-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441144201

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Just Love by Margaret Farley Pdf

Winner of the 2008 Grawemeyer Award in Religion This long-awaited book by one of American Christianity's foremost ethicists proposes a framework for sexual ethics whereby justice is the criterion for all loving, including love that is related to sexual activity and relationships. It begins with historical and cross-cultural explorations, then addresses the large questions of embodiment, gender, and sexuality, and finally delineates the justice framework for sexual ethics. Though Just Love's particular focus is Christian sexual ethics, Farley's framework is broad enough to have relevance for multiple traditions. Also covered are specific issues in sexual ethics, including same-sex relationships, marriage and family, divorce and second marriage.

Author : Aline H. Kalbian
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005-04-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780253111388

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Sexing the Church by Aline H. Kalbian Pdf

"A wonderful book that gives us a fresh angle of vision on modern Roman Catholic teaching about sex, marriage, gender relationships, and reproduction. After reading Sexing the Church, few will doubt the extent to which Catholic teaching about the law of nature owes no small debt to history and culture." -- Richard B. Miller, Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions "...Catholic attitudes about women in the priesthood... display [a] contradiction between egalitarian and subordinationist views.... Women are denied access to the 'eucharistic' priesthood because allowing them in would upset the redemptive order. Why is it, then, that imagery from the created order (women as mothers, brides, virgins) is often used to describe the redemptive 'mystery' that connects Christ with the Church? Why is the Church 'sexed' female?... This sexing of the Church is more than just an example of how gender and order work in Catholic morality; it also reveals tensions in the complex patterns of Catholic reasoning about marriage, reproduction, and church authority. In a surprising way, it challenges the order enforced by the Catholic ethics of marriage and reproduction." -- from Chapter One The regulation of human sexuality in contemporary Catholicism, a topic that monopolizes public conversation about the Catholic Church, is also a central concern of Catholic theological discussions of religious ethics. Aline H. Kalbian traces the history of the connection between moral theology and sexual ethics as it applies to the concern for order in official teachings on marriage, reproduction, and sex. She explores order as it is reflected in the theology of marriage, the 20th-century challenge to that order in the debates on contraception and assisted reproduction, and the way attitudes about gender in Catholicism connect theological and moral order with ecclesiastical order.