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Sexual Diversity and Catholicism: Toward the Development of Moral Theology »

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Authors: Patricia Beattie Jung (Editor), Joseph Andrew Coray
ISBN-13: 9780814659397, ISBN-10: 081465939X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Glazier, Michael, Incorporated
Date Published: April 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Patricia Beattie Jung

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Pt. 1Interpreting Church Teachings
1A Call to Listen: The Church's Pastoral and Theological Response to Gays and Lesbians3
2Unitive and Procreative Meaning: The Inseparable Link22
3The Bridegroom and the Bride: The Theological Anthropology of John Paul II and Its Relation to the Bible and Homosexuality39
4The Church and Homosexuality: A Lonerganian Approach60
Pt. 2Interpreting the Bible
5The Promise of Postmodern Hermeneutics for the Biblical Renewal of Moral Theology77
6Questions about the Construction of (Homo)sexuality: Same-Sex Relations in the Hebrew Bible108
7Romans 1:26-27: The Claim that Homosexuality Is Unnatural133
8The New Testament and Homosexuality?150
9Perfect Fear Casteth Out Love: Reading, Citing, and Rape175
Pt. 3Interpreting Secular Disciplines
10Homosexuality, Moral Theology, and Scientific Evidence201
11Informing the Debate on Homosexuality: The Behavioral Sciences and the Church216
12Harming by Exclusion: On the Standard Concepts of Sexual Orientation, Sex, and Gender252
Pt. 4Interpreting Human Experience
13Papal Ideals, Marital Realities: On View from the Ground269
14Catholic Lesbian Feminist Theology289
Contributors305
Subject Index309
Index of Ecclesial Documents311

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