Sentences with phrase «christian sexual ethic»

But in the wake of Moran's accusations that the Fellowship condones gay lifestyles, it adopted an organizational policy declaring that the Christian sexual ethic is «faithfulness in marriage between a man and a woman and celibacy in singleness.»

It is only with an understanding of vocation and the question of sexual vocation other than marriage and celibacy that a responsible Christian sexual ethic can be elaborated which is neither reactionary nor soft - headed, neither simply orthodox nor simply enlightened, but a genuine application of Christian moral insight to the contemporary setting.

And I came to understand that the typical «Christian sexual ethic» was not biblical while I still believed in absolute scriptural authority.

Grounding a Christian sexual ethic on the call of Christ to lifelong fidelity is not a quick and easy solution to the sexual crisis of our generation.

One of the common criticisms of a traditionally Christian sexual ethic is that it forces a lot of gay people into involuntary celibacy, which some find very lonely, painful, frustrating.

@Shelley, The typical right wing Christian sexual ethic promoted in most evangelistic churches is MAN MADE.

Sex in the Parish is an interesting inquiry into how to contain the damage after anything like an identifiably Christian sexual ethic has been abandoned.

We can bear the cross together with those for whom Christian sexual ethics are hard, but we can not take it from them.

For example, the aforementioned Moore noted that, yes, Christian sexual ethics might increasingly be seen as strange, but that cultural dissonance would present an opportunity to winsomely affirm that we believe things, like the Resurrection and the Second Coming, «that are even stranger than that.»

Christian sexual ethics should not take them seriously.

He makes two fine points: First, regardless of inner desires, we Christians are accountable to behavioral standards set forth in classic Christian sexual ethics, which inevitably revolve around the Christian teaching on marriage; and second, the current definitions of internal desires are a mess.

Society has decided that if you hold to traditional Christian sexual ethics, there's no room for you in public life anymore, argues James Mi... More

If Pope Francis is right that contextualizing our moral discourse is a necessary prerequisite to being found convincing — or even intelligible — by our interlocutors, then abandoning heteronormativity and resurrecting our own tradition of familial - teleological chastity is the only way to adequately explain Christian sexual ethics.

The document does not present a thorough exposition of Christian sexual ethics; it opts, as Anderson says, for a «minimalist focus» on contemporary controversies.

Not exact matches

Since at least the 1950s, conservative evangelicalism's overarching sexual ethic has put a substantive emphasis on «modesty» — that is, how [Christian] women dress, specifically in terms of highlighting their sensuality.

A post-Enlightenment public square sounds positively tribal: it would mean Muslims arguing for Shari'a law and Christians arguing from the Bible about sexual ethics.

Some of us disagree with the sexual ethics of orthodox Jews, Christians, and Muslims giving rise to this legislation, but we are unified in our resistance to the government setting up its own system of orthodoxy.

Sixth, the ultimate Christian ethic is not rooted in sexual abstinence.

Overall, the entire field of Christian social ethics — liberationist or not — pays scandalously little attention to empirical data and social science, as when Karen Lebacqz cites the Hite Report as though it were a statistically representative sample of sexual attitudes and behaviors, or when Michael Novak draws simplistic comparisons between Japanese and Latin American political economies.

John Burgess on sexual ethics, Christian Century, July 28 — August 4, 1993.

On the other hand, liberals writing about family life or sexual ethics know that «the family ideal» is not viable for Christians today.

In Paul's letter to Christians at Corinth, all discussion of sexual ethics occurs in the context of concern that Christians should not be influenced by the scandalous conduct of the pagans.

Act - oriented sexual ethics had dominated most of the Christian tradition, bearing the assumption that the rightness or wrongness of a particular sexual expression could be ascertained by the intrinsic value or disvalue of the action itself, without serious consideration of the relational context.

Video of apparent affair surfaces as Christian higher education leaders are debating sexual ethics standards.

The author explores this thesis in the light of Christian tradition, new understandings of sexuality, and the meaning of faithfulness, and suggests a sexual ethic that expresses justice, especially for women.

They embrace racial and economic justice and creation care; they affirm the full dignity and equality of women; they take for granted that faithful Christians must embrace evangelism and social action; and they hold to a biblical sexual ethic while vigorously opposing mistreatment of LGBT people and defending their appropriate civil rights.

The question is, once this sexual - orientation structure collapses, what will come to replace it: the queer theorists» nihilistic anything - goes ethic, or the classical Christian view from which all of this is a departure, the view that takes the marital - procreative as its end and organizing principle, evaluating passions against nature rather than vice versa?

Christian social ethics therefore requires a view of human fulfillment and hope that will support young people in concrete ways in the sexual crisis that has engulfed them and the society of which they are a part.

For Christians, as for everyone else, the topic of sexual ethics is today one of widespread confusion, contention, and uncertainty.

The danger in reflecting on the eight articles in The Christian Century's sexual ethics series is in producing just such a manuscript.

The Bible knows only a love ethic, which is constantly being brought to bear on whatever sexual mores are dominant in any given country, or culture, or period» («Biblical Perspectives on Homosexuality,» The Christian Century, November 7, 1979)

The biblical basis of a Christian's sexual ethic can never be abrogated.

Referring to the case of London Borough of Islington v Ladele [2009] EWCA Civ 1357, in which a registrar refused on religious grounds to perform civil partnership ceremonies, Lord Carey said the field of sexual ethics and Christian teaching was complex, and it was «regrettable» that senior members of the judiciary felt able to make disparaging comments and to use the «unbefitting» descriptive word, «discriminatory».