Reconstructing Theological Ethics

Selected Topics in Human Sexuality

P. A. McGavin

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9788367405362
• eBook ISBN: 9788367405348
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Theology

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.

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Table of contents

• Cover illustrations
• Introducing the Book
• Contents
• Preface
• Part One: Prologue: Method and Scope
• 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 1B Amplifying recent scholarly discourses on the positioning of self within research
• Annex 1C Insights from Psychology and Sexology
• Part Two: Synoptics, Johannine, Pauline 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 2B Fundamental understanding of the human person in Catholic sacramental theology
• 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 4 Extensions of Fundamental Understanding of the Human Person: Pauline Sources
• Part Three: Contemporary Dialogue with Catholic Doctrine and Natural Law
• 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
• 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
• Annex 7A Further hazards in sexual identity: amplifying sodomy
• Part Four: Applications of Method and Findings and Summing-up
• 8 Understandings of the Human Person, the Sexual Person: Theological Ethics and Ascetical Theology and Practice
• Chapter 9 Theological Ethics Understandings of the Sexuality of the Human Person: Conclusions and Paradigmatic Overview
• Bibliography
• Indexes
• Abbreviations and citation conventions