Sexual Ethics



Certain Questions Concerning Sexual Ethics Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

The Person Who Commits Impurity Sins Against His Own Body Gregory of Nyssa

Sex, Ethics, and One Billion Adolescents By Professor Daniel C. Maguire, Theology Department, Marquette University

Religious Declaration on Sexual Morality, Justice, and Healing A consensus statement created by theologians and ethicists from a broad range of religious traditions and currently endorsed by over two thousand religious leaders across the United States, including denominational leaders, seminary presidents, deans, and faculty members, and clergy from more than twenty-five religious traditions

And Adam Knew Eve: A Dictionary of Sex in the Bible By Ronald L. Ecker. Includes articles on topics such as adultery, fornication, and incest

A Hermeneutics of Sexual Identity: A challenge to Conservative Religious Discourse By Samuel Hill in Verbum et Ecclesia, 2009

Engendered Representations: Exploring Sexuality through Symbols and Myths By Rory du Plessis and Marinda Maree in Verbum et Ecclesia, 2009

Thou Shalt: Sex Beyond the List of Don'ts By Lisa Fullam in Commonweal, April 24, 2009

Post HumanaeVitae: Germaine Greer and Pope Paul VI in conversation By Sophie McGrath RSM in Australian EJournal of Theology, March 2009

Sexuality and Partnership: Aspects of Theological Ethics in the Field of Marriage, Unmarried and Homosexual Couples By Ulrich H.J. Körtner, University of Vienna, in HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2008

Consistency and Christian Ethics By William Schweiker in Anglican Theological Review, Summer 2008

Truly Human Sexual Acts: A Response to Patrick Lee and Robert George By Todd A. Salzman in Theological Studies, September 2008

Sex & Christianity: How Has the Moral Landscape Changed? By Charles Taylor in Commonweal, Sept 28, 2007

Flirty Fishing in the Children of God: The Sexual Body as a Site of Proselytization and Salvation By Susan Raine in the Marburg Journal of Religion: Volume, May 2007

Catholic Sexual Ethics: Complementarity and the Truly Human By Todd A. Salzman and Michael G. Lawler in Theological Studies, September 2006

The Biology of Human Sexuality: Evolution, Ecology and Physiology By PW Bateman, NC Bennett in Verbum et Ecclesia, 2006

Love and the Sexual Sphere: A Study of the Relationship between Love and Sexuality in Karol Wojtyla's Love and Responsibility By Jordan Matthew Olver. A Master of Arts Thesis in the Department of History at the University of Saskatchewan, August 2006

Christianity and Sexuality By Shirley McGuire in Urbi et Orbi, Fall 2006

Sexuality and Shifting Paradigms: Setting the Scene By Yolanda Dreyer, University of Pretoria, in HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies, 2005

Drifting Toward Irrelevance? The Laity, Sexual Ethics, and the Future of the Church By Leslie Woodcock Tentler, 2005

Human Dignity and Sexual Behaviour – A Theological Perspective By N Vorster in Verbum et Ecclesia, 2005

Christian Sexual Ethics in a Time of HIV/AIDS – A Challenge for Public Theology By Michael Haspel in Verbum et Ecclesia, 2004

Quaestio Disputata Cohabitation: Past and Present Reality By Michael G. Lawyer in Theological Studies, September 2004

Heroic Heretical Heterosexuality By Jeffrey J. Kripal in Cross Currents, Fall 2004

Sex and Mysticism By Ignacio L. Gotz in Cross Currents, Fall 2004

Sex and the Sacred By Daniel C. Maguire in Cross Currents, Fall 2004

A Social-Constructionist, Narrative Understanding of the Church's Morality on Sex By J C Müller and H E Pienaar in Verbum et Ecclesia, 2003

Is Contraception Really Intrinsically Evil? By John Flanagan in Theology@McAuley, 2002

A Disembodied 'Theology of the Body': John Paul II on Love, Sex and Pleasure By Luke Timothy Johnson in Commonweal, January 26, 2001

Jacques Maritain And Charles Journet On Human Sexuality By Bernard Doering in Theological Studies, September 2001

What Makes for Good Sex? A Farewell to Easy Answers By Mary E. Hunt in The Witness, April 2000

A Sexual Ethic – Built upon the Foundation of Celibacy By Diana L. Hayes in The Witness, April 2000

Sex: God's Blessing or Humanity's Curse? By W. Jay Wood on What Would Augustine Say?

The Theology Behind Natural Family Planning By Elizabeth Price on “Catholics for a Changing Church”

Marriage and Sexual Fidelity in the Papyri, Plutarch and Paul By G.W. Peterman, Palm Beach Atlantic College, in Tyndale Bulletin, 1999

Blessed Are They Who Mourn: Roman Catholic Sex/Gender Ideology after Vatican II By Marian Ronan, American Baptist Seminary of the West

Statement on Assisted Human Reproductive Technologies 1998 statement by the bishops of New Zealand

Helping Childless Couples Conceive One in six U.S. couples is infertile. In an era when technology offers such couples more and more options, a Catholic moral theologian, Richard C. Sparks, C.S.P., explains in a 1997 St. Anthony Messenger article the Church's teaching concerning the different procedures

A Case for Sexual Fidelity By Patricia Beattie Jung in Word & World, 1994

Church Power, Sex Laws Hide Gospel Call By Anthony T. Padovano in National Catholic Reporter, Nov 18, 1994

Why Are We of a God Incarnate Ashamed of Flesh? By Richard Rohr in National Catholic Reporter, Oct 14, 1994

Encyclical Insists Intercourse Is Language of Love By Peter Hebblethwaite in National Catholic Reporter, July 16, 1993

Encyclical Left Church Credibility Stillborn By Charles Curran in National Catholic Reporter, July 16, 1993

Sexual Ethics By Bernard Hoose in The Way, 1993

We Might All Be Better Off If Paul VI Had Done Nothing By Thomas E. Blackburn in National Catholic Reporter, July 16, 1993

Confessions of a Birth Control Commission Catholic By Patty Crowley in National Catholic Reporter, Dec 17, 1993

The Human Person and Sexuality By Joseph Tetlow in The Way, 1991

A Letter to the Pope By Bernhard Häring, from the Tablet, 30 June 1990

Biblical Perspectives on Sexuality By Diane Jacobson in Word & World, 1990

Catholics and Family Planning Pastoral letter by the New Zealand Catholic bishops

Catholic Social and Sexual Teaching: a Methodological Comparison By Charles E. Curran in Theology Today, January 1988. The contemporary official Catholic leaching on social issues with its relationality-responsibility model recognizes significant gray areas.... In the contemporary official Catholic teaching on sexual issues, there is little or no mention of such gray areas

Doing Sexual Ethics in a Post-Permissive Society By Denise Lardner Carmody in The Way, 1988

Roman Catholic Sexual Ethics: A Dissenting View By Charles E. Curran in Christian Century, December 16, 1987

Love is for Life 1986 pastoral letter by the Irish bishops. See especially part II on such topics as premarital sex, pronography, and contraception

Romance in the Church By B.Z. Goldberg, in his book, The Sacred Fire, 1930

Adultery Article from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia



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