Sexual Virtue: An Approach to Contemporary Christian Ethics - Couverture rigide

McCarty, Richard W.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1438454295 ISBN 13 : 9781438454290

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2015

Synopsis

Uses virtue ethics to offer a sexual ethics inclusive of LGBT and straight people, one that challenges the longstanding procreative patriarchal norm.

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Richard W. McCarty is Professor of Religious Studies at Mercyhurst University. He is the author of Sexual Virtue: An Approach to Contemporary Christian Ethics, also published by SUNY Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1438454295
• ISBN 13: 9781438454290
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 306
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible