Christian Bioethics: Sex and/or Gender?
The papers in this number of Christian Bioethics: Non-Ecumenical Studies in Medical Morality explore the complex set of bioethical concerns related to sex. That the secular world appreciates human sexuality and sexual ethics rather differently than Christianity is obvious. For secular sexual ethics,...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
[2020]
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Christian bioethics
Year: 2020, Volume: 26, Issue: 3, Pages: 205-220 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality CH Christianity and Society FD Contextual theology NBE Anthropology NCF Sexual ethics NCH Medical ethics |
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| Summary: | The papers in this number of Christian Bioethics: Non-Ecumenical Studies in Medical Morality explore the complex set of bioethical concerns related to sex. That the secular world appreciates human sexuality and sexual ethics rather differently than Christianity is obvious. For secular sexual ethics, autonomous individual consent usually draws the only morally relevant distinction between permissible and impermissible choice. As a result, secular bioethics typically advocates nontraditional understandings of sex, gender, and marriage, rejecting biological, psychological, or spiritual differences between men and women. For Christianity, sex, as in being male or female as well as in appropriate expressions of sexuality and sexual intimacy, is appreciated as foundational to who persons are and how they maintain proper orientation toward God. Moreover, a sexual ethics is embraced that understands that all sexual intimacy is to be placed within the marriage of one man and one woman, through which husband and wife are to be transfigured in the Mystery of marriage by Christian love. Representing a wide range of Christian perspectives, the authors in this issue draw on the phenomenological reflections of Pope John Paul II, the Roman Catholic Natural Law tradition, contemporary Orthodox Christianity, and the ancient Church Fathers to explore the nature of the self, sexuality, sex, and gender. |
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| ISSN: | 1744-4195 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Christian bioethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/cb/cbaa009 |