Sentences with phrase «human sexuality as»

They learn about human sexuality as a gift from God

In addition, it is often prepared to consider human sexuality as an aspect or element in human beings that are assumed to exist as fixed entities — as if one could speak of static and changeless «human nature.»

Ironically, that is the point decisively rejected by the authors of Human Sexuality as being conservative and life - denying.

We accept this pattern of human sexuality as a foundation for human society, and we celebrate the healthy relationships of mutual service that embody it» above all, the divinely ordained covenant of marriage between one man and one woman prepared to bear and rear each succeeding generation of children.

Mal Harrison, founder of the Center for Erotic Intelligence and former advice columnist and resident sexologist for the Museum of Sex, studies human sexuality as a science and shares her findings with the world.

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It's a very broad and interesting question, as it deals with all aspects of human sexuality.

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that many of those who do in fact leave the Church over issues related to sexuality do so because they've been told over and over again that their value as a Christian, and as a human being, is wrapped up in their virginity, so they no longer feel welcomed or worthy.

In this sense marriage, family, sexuality is something inscribed into our identity as human beings and not just a set of social conventions.

But if, as the doctrine of the Catholic Church has it, human nature is wounded but not totally corrupt, then these human realities of reason, affection and sexuality, while they are affected by the wound in our nature and so must be redeemed, remain essentially good.

The belief, as it is stated, certainly contains the possibility that humans sexuality is wholly determined by environment one way or another, but it isn't a logical necessity.

The answer is pretty specific and pretty basic and it has to do with human sexuality, as that is how LGTQ, or current label differ from long - held teaching and tradition, and also what nature would seem to indicate.

Biola then issued a «statement on human sexuality» saying, «God's design for marriage and sexuality is the foundational reason for viewing acts of sexual intimacy between a man and a woman outside of marriage, and any act of sexual intimacy between two person of the same sex, as illegitimate moral options for the confessing Christian.»

The Church recognises the family as the building block of society and for good reason has carefully defended the understanding of family relationships and of human sexuality which is so intimately linked to the ordering of family life and the procreation of succeeding generations.

To take cognizance of new insights into human sexuality from the life sciences is not, as some critics suggest, to contribute to the breakdown of morality.

Some feel it reflects a negative valuation of human sexuality based on the dualism of Hellenistic thought, which saw salvation as a freeing of the soul from the body, rather than the biblical tradition which affirms the goodness of the whole creation.

Second, there was a conspiracy of silence as to how sexuality enters into human growth.

However enjoyable it might be, masturbation fails to fulfill this form of human sexuality, and as such is corrosive to the integrity of our persons and our intimacy of the Spirit.

The reality of human sexuality is a patent fact; and it would seem to be intimately tied in with man's total organic movement, which as we have seen includes his physiology, biology, and psychology, as well as his appreciative (and hence his aesthetic), valuational, and feeling qualities.

When sexuality gets framed as something to repress or feed, something that needs to be reigned in or fanned into flame, we're seeing it as merely an appetite, a set of biological compulsions, and we've lost something fundamentally human about ourselves.

As has been intimated in these posts, human sexuality is incredibly complex.

Rather than viewing it as a decision made for the sake of living a life free from the world's demands, Augustine agonized over the «evils» of sexuality in a doctrinal context that virtually denied the human capacity for free moral decision.

Human Sexuality was «received» by the CTSA, which also «arranged» for its publication «as a service to the membership of the Society and a wider public of interested persons.»

This attitude is at complete variance to that behind Natural Family Planning (NFP), wherein a couple who have reason to space their children accept the gift of sexuality exactly as it is stamped in the human person by God and do not treat their fertility as a problem to be expunged by technology.

But Christianity contains more positive attitudes as well, including biblical affirmations of the human body — evident in the creation story, the concept of the incarnation and the Roman Catholic notion of the unitive purposes of sexuality.

Both mainline Protestant and Catholic churches have been addressing the degradation of human sexuality and especially of women that pornography entails rather than emphasizing as the religious right groups do the inherent objectionableness of sexually explicit and sexually stimulating material.

But the more frequently stated goal is as revolutionary as it claims to be — to displace the common wisdom regarding human sexuality in both church and culture.

«All discussions about human sexuality need to be handled with care, as they speak into deep areas of our humanity and identity,» says Steve Clifford, general director of the Evangelical Alliance.

The doctrine of forgiveness, the doctrine of the Cross as a symbol of redemption, the myths and the mysteries surrounding the human body and human sexuality, the identification of sin and temptation with femaleness, the Image of God, the mind / body dualism that devalues female life, the depreciation of creation... these are some of the problems Christianity poses, giving subtle sanction to the violence women experience.

Social sexuality, then, reflects the basic human need we experience as men and women for intimacy and connection.

As Eric Hester explains later in this issue The Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality [11] teaches that formation in chastity and any information imparted about sexuality should be given in the broadest context of information abSexuality [11] teaches that formation in chastity and any information imparted about sexuality should be given in the broadest context of information absexuality should be given in the broadest context of information about love.

An Athanasius, inspired by a genuinely Christian monasticism, not only had a more (comparative to his times) wholesome understanding of human sexuality and marriage, as well as women s ministerial roles in the church, but also struggled (to the point of being expelled from his diocese five times by those supporting the imperium) for an orthodoxy which would confess the God revealed in Christ as a community of consubstantial Persons.

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This subject must be presented only in terms of chastity, health and the truth about human sexuality in its relationship to the family as taught by the Church.»

It will be useful to begin this chapter by giving due consideration to this broad fact about us and to see our human sexuality, in its deepest sense, as having much to do with how we respond.

Discusses the bioenergetic understanding of sexuality as this relates to human potentializing.

However, I believe that if we seek to understand why Paul saw homosexual acts as radically contrary to God's design for human sexuality, we will come to understand both the Gospel itself — and that design — much more deeply.

That our culture and the Court have come to accept the moral liceity of both contraception and sodomy does not show that the «essence» of human sexuality and marriage have changed — indeed, what is essential to something can not change, belonging as it does to the nature of the thing — but that our prevailing sexual culture has grown ever more unnatural, irrational, immoral, and destructive of human flourishing.

That having been said, it requires a measure of exegetical agility to interpret some of the criticisms of the instruction as anything less than a rejection of the Church's constantly held doctrine regarding human sexuality, and homosexuality in particular.

At the same time, the mainline churches were facing their own crisis involving declining membership (especially among younger generations), clergy shortages, and deep polarization over issues such as human sexuality.

There has been a shift from understanding sexuality as either incidental to or detrimental to the experience of God toward understanding sexuality as intrinsic to the divine - human experience.

Many of his insights concerning the power and pervasiveness of human sexuality from the beginnings of life are useful for growthful parenting as well as for therapeutic repair work later in life.

[7] Some may wish to dismiss these arguments as if they rested on a purely «biological» concept of human sexuality.

Recent correspondence concerning sexuality and love draws me to argue that, surprising as it may seem, sexual activity can not by itself generate or increase human love.

We had, essentially, objectified our fellow human beings, which struck me as the opposite of a healthy, Christlike engagement of sexuality.

The natural law is a body of unchanging moral principles known not from revelation (though parallel to it) but by reason, principles regarded as a basis for all human conduct: to speak in this way of «the humanisation of sexuality» is simply the understanding of the natural law in particular human circumstances: there is no movement away from natural law - say, to revelation or ecclesial authority; we are stillwithin its ambit.

In doing so, they were forced also to trade the robust natural law tradition for the recently constructed standard of «psychiatric normality,» with «heterosexuality» serving as the new normal for human sexuality.

But, as we shall see, sexuality and sexual awareness have several distinct elements (or «stages»), even now recognizable and, to a degree, separable («recapitulated») in the emerging human sexuality surrounding puberty.

To put it another way, using the Bible as a handbook on human sexuality makes as much sense as using it as a handbook on astronomy.

One aspect of human nature is our sexuality, largely a matter of physiology but (as we now increasingly understand) involving emotional, psychological, and spiritual qualities as well.

If Christ's teaching about marriage and family is not the medicine for overcoming the hardness of the human heart about which he speaks in Matthew 19:8, and if he hadn't been able to restore health to something as basic to human life as marriage, family and sexuality, then he wouldn't be the one the human race was looking for.