Reconstructing Theological Ethics

Handing Down the Flame of the Dharma

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Cultural Diversity in China

Theological Ethics in the book title is intended to mark a departure from the manner of Catholic practice named Moral Theology. This departure has two strands, because the practice that the Second Vatican Council critically addressed was a manualist tradition, while much of the practice following the Council has been represented as relativist. This book is not manualist in that the focus is upon method rather than on codified specification of behaviours. The work is not relativist in that the focus on method is firstly scriptural, approaching scripture in a holistic or canonical manner; and, further, is lawful, in an approach of law that focuses less on precept and more on understandings of natural law that brings together phenomenological evidences and scriptural evidences. The scriptural and natural law perspective present in the book also engages cross-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary learnings. These streams of scripture, natural law, and inter/cross-disciplinary learnings have a confluence in discourse in the manner of dialogue, a manner that is dialogical. An essential aspect of dialogue under the banner of Reconstructing Theological Ethics is that it should engage contemp -orary culture––not in a sense that contemporaneity or modernity should be determinative, but in the sense that the reasoning, argumentation, and dialogue should have resonance with contemporary thinking and rethinking of issues that remain in contention for contemporary audiences. Theological Ethics is a wide remit, and the book provides a methodological focus on Selected Topics in Human Sexuality.

Selected Topics in Human Sexuality

8 Understandings of the Human Person, the Sexual Person: Theological Ethics and Ascetical Theology and Practice

8 Understandings of the Human Person, the Sexual Person: Theological Ethics and Ascetical Theology and Practice

Frontmatter

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Cover illustrations

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Introducing the Book

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Contents

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Preface

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Chapter 1 Prologue: Method and Scope: the problem and the need for reconstruction of Catholic theological ethics

Chapter 1 Prologue: Method and Scope: the problem and the need for reconstruction of Catholic theological ethics

Annex 1A Movements for rethinking traditional moral or ethics teaching

Annex 1A Movements for rethinking traditional moral or ethics teaching

Annex 1B Amplifying recent scholarly discourses on the positioning of self within research

Annex 1B Amplifying recent scholarly discourses on the positioning of self within research

Annex 1C Insights from Psychology and Sexology

Annex 1C Insights from Psychology and Sexology

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Chapter 2 Fundamental Understanding of the Human Persons: Theological Introduction and Synoptics Sources

Chapter 2 Fundamental Understanding of the Human Persons: Theological Introduction and Synoptics Sources

Annex 2A Setting “The Fall” in the Context of the Redeeming Work of God in Christ

Annex 2A Setting “The Fall” in the Context of the Redeeming Work of God in Christ

Annex 2B Fundamental understanding of the human person in Catholic sacramental theology

Annex 2B Fundamental understanding of the human person in Catholic sacramental theology

Annex 2C Further usage of sw`ma and savrx involving descriptive language usages

Annex 2C Further usage of sw`ma and savrx involving descriptive language usages

Chapter 3 Further Fundamental Understandng of the Human Person: Johannine Sources

Chapter 3 Further Fundamental Understandng of the Human Person: Johannine Sources

Chapter 4 Extensions of Fundamental Understanding of the Human Person: Pauline Sources

Chapter 4 Extensions of Fundamental Understanding of the Human Person: Pauline Sources

5 Natural Law and Catholic Doctrine on Human Sexuality: Fornication and Contraception

5 Natural Law and Catholic Doctrine on Human Sexuality: Fornication and Contraception

6 Natural Law and Catholic Doctrine on Human Sexuality: Issues of Sexual Identity, Boundaries and Norms, and Apologetics

6 Natural Law and Catholic Doctrine on Human Sexuality: Issues of Sexual Identity, Boundaries and Norms, and Apologetics

6A On venial and mortal sin, or “sin”? the issue of “masturbation”

6A On venial and mortal sin, or “sin”? the issue of “masturbation”

Chapter 7 Developing Fundamental Understandings of the Human Person: Homosexuality and Catholic Doctrine

Chapter 7 Developing Fundamental Understandings of the Human Person: Homosexuality and Catholic Doctrine

Annex 7A Further hazards in sexual identity: amplifying sodomy

Annex 7A Further hazards in sexual identity: amplifying sodomy

Chapter 9 Theological Ethics Understandings of the Sexuality of the Human Person: Conclusions and Paradigmatic Overview

Chapter 9 Theological Ethics Understandings of the Sexuality of the Human Person: Conclusions and Paradigmatic Overview

Bibliography

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Indexes

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Abbreviations and citation conventions

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 Theological Ethics in the book title is intended to mark a departure from the manner of Catholic practice named Moral Theology. This departure has two strands, because the practice that the Second Vatican Council critically addressed was a manualist tradition, while much of the practice following the Council has been represented as relativist. This book is not manualist in that the focus is upon method rather than on codified specification of behaviours.

 Theological Ethics in the book title is intended to mark a departure from the manner of Catholic practice named Moral Theology. This departure has...

8 Understandings of the Human Person, the Sexual Person: Theological Ethics and Ascetical Theology and Practice

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