God, Sex, and Gender : An Introduction.
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- computer
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- 9781444396362
- 233/.5
- BT708 .T444 2011
God, Sex, and Gender: An Introduction -- Contents -- Introduction - Or, a Welcome to My Readers -- Part I: Sex, Gender, and Theology -- 1 Sex: Sexuality, the Sexes, Having Sex -- 1.1 Sexuality -- 1.2 How Many Sexes are There? -- 1.3 Having Sex -- 2 Gender: Language, Power, and History -- 2.1 Gender -- 2.2 Gender, Language, and Power -- 2.3 Gender in the Time of Jesus -- 3 Theology: Sources and Applications -- 3.1 Explaining the Sources: Scripture, Tradition, Reason -- 3.2 Applying the Sources -- 3.3 Using the Sources Well -- Part II: Being Theological about Sex -- 4 Desiring -- 4.1 Learning from Lust -- 4.2 Desiring -- 4.3 Desiring God? -- 4.4 God Desiring Us? -- 5 Framing Sex: Must the Framework be Marriage? -- 5.1 The Traditional Framework: Celibacy or Marriage? -- 5.2 The Case against Marriage -- 5.3 Alternative Frameworks: Justice and Friendship? -- 5.4 A New Case for Marriage? -- 6 Covenants and Covenant-Makers -- 6.1 Beginning with God -- 6.2 God the Father - Maker of Covenants -- 6.3 Christ - The Bridegroom, Maker of a New Covenant -- 6.4 The Eucharist - Sharing in the New Covenant -- Part III: Being Theological about Gender -- 7 God: Beyond Male and Female -- 7.1 Does God Have [a] Sex? -- 7.2 Is God the Son a Man? -- 7.3 Mary - Mother of All the Living -- 7.4 Womankind in God's Likeness? -- 8 "In Christ there is neither Male nor Female" -- 8.1 Sex in the Body of Christ -- 8.2 Gender in the Body of Christ -- 8.3 Masculinity in the Body of Christ -- 8.4 . . . Neither . . . Male nor Female . . .? -- Part IV: Being Theological about Same-Sex Love -- 9 The Bible and Same-Sex Love -- 9.1 What the Churches Teach -- 9.2 Same-Sex Relations in the Hebrew Bible -- 9.3 Same-Sex Relations in the New Testament -- 9.4 What Else Does the Bible "Say" about Same-Sex Relations? -- 9.5 Finding What We Want to Find? Evaluating Official Teaching.
10 Tradition, Reason, and Same-Sex Love -- 10.1 Tradition and Same-Sex Love -- 10.2 Reason, Natural Law, and Same-Sex Love -- 10.3 Complementarity and Same-Sex Love -- 10.4 Experience and Same-Sex Love -- Part V: Learning to Love -- 11 Virginity, Celibacy, Chastity -- 11.1 Valuing Virginity? -- 11.2 Virginity "for the Sake of the Kingdom" -- 11.3 In Praise of Restraint -- 11.4 Commending Chastity -- 12 "Condilemmas": Sex and Contraception in the Time of HIV/AIDS -- 12.1 Contraception, Still a Theological Issue -- 12.2 Lambeth against Rome -- 12.3 Contraception and Natural Law -- 12.4 Sex and Love: An "Unbreakable Connection"? -- 12.5 Moral Deficit Arguments -- 12.6 Condoms in the Time of HIV/AIDS -- 13 Marriage and the "States of Life" -- 13.1 Betrothal in the Bible -- 13.2 Betrothal and Tradition -- 13.3 Spousals, Nuptials, and States of Life -- 14 Inclusive Theology and Sexual Minorities -- 14.1 Sex -- 14.2 Gender -- Index of Authors -- Index of Biblical References -- Index of Subjects.
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