Sex, Gender, and Christian Ethics

Sex, Gender, and Christian Ethics
Author: Lisa Sowle Cahill
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1996-08-28
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521578486

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.

Gender and Christian Ethics

Gender and Christian Ethics
Author: Adrian Thatcher
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2020-10-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1108839487

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

Gendering Christian Ethics

Gendering Christian Ethics
Author: Jenny Daggers
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2012-11-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1443843547

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.

God, Science, Sex, Gender

God, Science, Sex, Gender
Author: Patricia Beattie Jung
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2010
Genre: Christian ethics
ISBN: 0252077245

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.

God, Science, Sex, Gender

God, Science, Sex, Gender
Author: Patricia Beattie Jung
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2023-12-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0252047273

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.

Sex and Gender

Sex and Gender
Author: Mary Jo Iozzio
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2017-11-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1626165319

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.

Between the Sexes

Between the Sexes
Author: Lisa Sowle Cahill
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 184
Release: 1989
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781451413052

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).

Christian Perspectives on Sexuality and Gender

Christian Perspectives on Sexuality and Gender
Author: Elizabeth Stuart
Publisher: Gracewing Publishing
Total Pages: 498
Release: 1996
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780802842282

This collection of articles present a variety of broadly-Christian responses to issues such as sexuality and gender, sexuality and spirituality, gay and lesbian sexuality, sexuality and violence, sexuality and singleness, and the family.

Sex and the Church

Sex and the Church
Author: Kathy Rudy
Publisher: Beacon Press (MA)
Total Pages: 182
Release: 1997
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

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".

Feminism and Christian Ethics

Feminism and Christian Ethics
Author: Susan Frank Parsons
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1996-02-29
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521468206

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.