Sexual Virtue : An Approach to Contemporary Christian Ethics
Sexual Virtue : An Approach to Contemporary Christian Ethics
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Author(s): Mccarty, Richard
McCarty, Richard W.
ISBN No.: 9781438454283
Pages: 305
Year: 201507
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 48.08
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available (On Demand)

Richard W. McCarty offers a compassionate and inclusive conception of sexual virtue, one that liberates Christians from traditional patriarchal requirements for heterosexuality, marriage, and procreation. Daring to depart from ongoing debates about what Aristotle or Aquinas had to say, this book sets a new course centered on virtue ethics. It employs new insights from the sciences, biblical scholarship, analyses of church traditions, and revisionist natural law thinking. Eschewing simple deconstruction of traditional Christian norms for sexual morality, McCarty offers constructive ideas about what might count as real human goods for people in a wide variety of sexual relationships. Recreation, relational intimacy, and selective acts of procreation are three ends of sexual virtue that promote human happiness and can be appreciated in a broad Christian framework. While primarily referencing the Roman Catholic intellectual tradition, McCarty s work is also vital and accessible to those from Protestant backgrounds. Addressed to LGBT and straight readers, "Sexual Virtue" provides a compassionate sexual ethics for our time.


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