Sentences with phrase «for sexual ethics»

Consent, as the primary criterion for sexual ethics, thinks too small.

[Pause here to consider the wisdom of appealing to any of these stories for our sexual ethics... Sorry.

Such a vague standard of normality, unsurprisingly, offered far flimsier support for sexual ethics than did the classical natural law tradition.

According to this way of thinking, one of the issues for sexual ethics is how the love of two people for each other affects their relationship with God.

Where do we gain our principals for sexual ethics form?

One implication for a sexual ethic we see at once.

The second principle for a sexual ethic is that we have to speak of sex, as of every aspect of human life, in a double way, from the standpoint of essential created goodness, and the distortion produced by sin.

Not exact matches

Setting aside my personal — and legally irrelevant — disgust at the idea (the «yuck factor,» as one evangelical leader infamously dubbed it, is really no sound basis for building our sexual ethics), it seems that the typical objection to such relationships is that they might lead to congenital problems in any offspring that result from the union.

She'd been giving some lectures to Anglican seminarians on sexual ethics, and she recommended they read my book Washed and Waiting, which I was grateful for.

Lutherans and Lutheranism would not seem to provide very fertile soil for the utopians who have tried to revolutionize sexual ethics in other denominations.

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

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.

Nelson's point is easily grasped, but it is easy to miss its staggering implication, namely, that there is, properly speaking, no special ethic for sexual relations.

My favorite part though is that whereas Missouri ethics law generally requires «amounts» and «total expenditures» as part of the reporting for such largesse, the sex bill includes the qualification, «The reporting of sexual relations for purposes of this subdivision shall not require a dollar valuation.»

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.»

For the most part, evangelicals joined the Episcopal Church out of an appreciation for its liturgy and tradition, not for its generally liberal approach to sexual ethics and scriptuFor the most part, evangelicals joined the Episcopal Church out of an appreciation for its liturgy and tradition, not for its generally liberal approach to sexual ethics and scriptufor its liturgy and tradition, not for its generally liberal approach to sexual ethics and scriptufor its generally liberal approach to sexual ethics and scripture.

Instead, engaging your faith in your sexual ethics can be a good way to arrive at God's calling for your life.

The meeting began on a Wednesday night at the bucolic campus of the University of Saint Mary of the Lake in Mundelein, Illinois, and the frank discussion quickly moved into a variety of topics including several difficult ones such as the Council of Trent, which is particularly anti-Protestant but still binding for Catholics, and the Catholic doctrine of the church as the prolongation of the incarnation of Christ (presented by Father Thomas A. Baima, the Catholic co-chair of the event), as well as social issues ranging from care for the poor, abortion, and the recent developments in gender and sexual ethics in the West.

«Scripture's male - female prerequisite for marriage and its attendant rejection of homosexual behavior is pervasive throughout both Testaments of Scripture (i.e. it is everywhere presumed in sexual discussions even when not explicitly mentioned); it is absolute (i.e. no exceptions are ever given, unlike even incest and polyamory); it is strongly proscribed (i.e. every mention of it in Scripture indicates that it is regarded as a foundational violation of sexual ethics); and it is countercultural (i.e. we know of no other culture in the ancient Near East or Greco - Roman Mediterranean basin more consistently and strongly opposed to homosexual practice).

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

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

The moral values associated with «the family pew» have had less influence on the sexual ethics of youths born after 1960 than the same values had for earlier generations of Protestants.

For example, there are some very influential evangelical voices who are choosing to adjust the principles and laws of God regarding family and sexual ethics to fit the latest norms of secular society.

For example, in a promising and controversial book published ten years ago, a group of Roman Catholic scholars proposed that Catholic sexual ethics stop centering on procreation, natural law and the physical contours of sexual acts and focus instead on the creative growth toward personal integration.

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.

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The goal is to allow the coexistence of the most contradictory interpretations: maternity, contraception or abortion; voluntary sterilisation or in - vitro fertilisation; sexual relations within or outside marriage, at any age, under any circumstance, as long as one abides by the triple precept of the new ethic: the partners» consent; their health security; and respect for the woman's right to choose.Reproductive health is the Trojan horse of the abortion lobby and of the global sexual revolution.

In addition to clashes over liberation theology, Vatican authorities have continued to uphold official teaching on sexual ethics in general (as in a 1986 statement on homosexuality by Cardinal Ratzinger) and have withstood calls even for an open discussion of women's ordination or of ending celibacy as a requirement for the priesthood.

Russell and the popes agree that the issue is not whether their sexual ethics may or may not be enhancing for some people, for the point is that they should be the kinds of people — i.e., capable of controlling jealousy — who are up to living such an ethic.

For the old sexual ethic continues to be reinforced so long as we insist on using unscientific language like «adultery» and «fornication.»

What's more, the relativist society in which we live ensures that there is an absolutism in this new sexual ethic, one in which there is very little tolerance for any dissenting voices.

Finally, Longwood proposed Jesus Christ as the «model of maturity» for men's sexuality and urged a sexual ethic of social justice and the common good.

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

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

National Catholic Reporter: Vatican criticizes US theologian's book on sexual ethics The Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has sharply criticized Just Love, an award - winning book on sexual ethics by Mercy Sr..

Moore did not appeal directly to Scripture and tradition for teen - age sexual norms; rather, he appealed to an ethic of social justice and fulfillment.

Beyond our need for a more adequate sexual theology and ethics, numerous specific issues cry out for reassessment, change, revolution.

(3) The appropriate sources of and authority for sexual theology and ethics remain unclear, and are a matter of contention (and here the authors themselves expressed differences) Is Scripture a basic and viable source?

For the church to allow the fear of death to govern its sexual ethics would be an unholy capitulation.

Such an ethics always asks about the meaning of any particular sexual act in the total context of the persons involved, in the context of their society, and in the context of that direction which God desires for human life.

Srinivasan is attempting to build a sexual ethic for a world where everything is «political» and inextricable from power relations.

Apparently God inspired his prophets to offer proposals for a new sexual ethic, and correct the waywardness of repressive Christianity, only from the age of rubber goods and great technological power over the bodily functions of man — which was very convenient.

Question: Have you, as a pregnant or breastfeeding mom, ever been insulted or felt demeaned (on a racial, ethic, cultural, religious, sexual orientation,... basis) when a well - meaning health provider (doctor, nurse, lactation consultant, etc.) provided care for you or your baby?

«Even after a state ethics report criticized him for covering up allegations of sexual harassment against a powerful assemblyman, even after a prosecutor said his failure to act might have put other women at risk, even after a number of editorial boards called for his ouster, Mr. Silver is still standing strong.»

Outgoing Republican Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin was disciplined for sexual harassment on Wednesday, after an investigation by the chamber's ethics committee found he had asked a female staff member for naked pictures — a claim he vehemently denied.

Common Cause, along with the National Organization for Women, asked the state ethics panel to conduct a wider probe of sexual harassment and other possible misconduct in the Assembly, as well as the Assembly leadership's response to any allegations.

Earlier this month, Cuomo called on the new ethics commission to investigate circumstances surrounding the Assembly's censure of Assemblyman Vito Lopez for sexual harassment.

Over the course of three days, an Assemblyman has been censured by the chamber's ethics committee for sexual harassment, and a State Senator has been arrested on corruption charges.

Barbara Bartoletti, with the League of Women Voters, says the Assembly's sexual harassment scandal presents the first true test for the fledgling ethics commission, created by Governor Cuomo and lawmakers last year.