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Contemporary western culture is awash with ideologies that reduce sexuality
to an outlet for pleasure, an ecstatic form of release needed for personal
fulfillment, or a commodity to be bought and sold. Many Christians living in
such a culture find themselves uncertain as to how to respond from within
churches torn by controversy, embarrassed by scandal, and thus driven into
uneasy silence on sexual matters. Catholic moral theology, itself at the
epicentre of this controversy over sexual issues since "Humanae vitae", has
struggled to respond to the call for renewal issues by the Second Vatican
Council. This book provides a theological foundation for consideration of the moral
dimensions of human sexuality from a Roman Catholic perspective. Drawing upon
key biblical themes such as covenant, discipleship and beatitude, it proposes
an understanding of covenant fidelity wedded to the virtue of chastity that
provides a suitable framework for a Catholic and Christian approach to issues
of sexuality in a contemporary context. What is needed to counter dominant
cultural ideologies is a vision of sexuality as integral to the human vocation
to communion as well as attention to the specific practices that enable persons
to grow in moral goodness. This work represents an original synthesis of biblical categories, the
tradition and language of virtue, and a theological understanding of the human
person. It is also among the first systematic applications of the renewal of
virtue theory in recent decades to issues of sexuality. This book provides a theological foundation for consideration of the moral
dimensions of human sexuality from a Roman Catholic perspective. It proposes an
understanding of covenant fidelity wedded to the virtue of chastity.
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