Sentences with phrase «human sexuality which»

[28] Celibacy is far from a rejection of the deep meaning of sexuality, but a living of human sexuality which is even fuller, more profound and complimentary to the extent that it explains the married vocation.

Obviously, all forms of human sexuality which do not have procreation as their goal fall equally under this principle: masturbation, contraception, nongenital sexuality between husband and wife, homosexuality.

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.

Not exact matches

Thus, when Tatchell talks of Enlightenment values and human rights, he is on very slippery ground, and that made slippery by the very philosophies of sexuality and identity to which he has committed his life.

The author says they are his friends, which is commendable, but friendship does not explain promoting a book that can only exacerbate the problems of Christians trying to attain moral clarity about human sexuality.

It calls for the identification and development of resources «which will enable all families to be ministered to creatively and all persons, regardless of their family patterns, to be affirmed and supported in the life of the Church...» Behind such statements lies an emphasis articulated already in 1978 by G. William Sheek, then Director of Family Ministries and Human Sexuality of the National Council of Churches.

The Pope clearly perceives that there is a real meaning to our human sexuality that is something which is a «given», something we can not fashion for ourselves or pretend to be other than it is.

The development of effective birth control methods has made it possible for the unitive function of human sexuality to be expressed more freely, which admittedly given predisposition to selfish predatory behavior is a mixed blessing.

Sexuality is not love, and much sexual experience may be independent of that mutual affection, commitment, and union of two personal histories which we call human love.

The loves which are linked with sexuality seem to be the extreme case of the ambiguity in human loves when they are judged in the light of agape.

The area in which schools should have a very significant role to play (and where perhaps some Catholic schools currently underperform), is the promotion of a culture in which young people understand and engage with the Church's key teachings relating to sexuality and the inherent dignity of human life.

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.

Sexuality in our age is almost completely dominated by the stimulus of bodily attraction, that is, the male - female mode of sexual power or that power of attraction which humans have in common with the animals.

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.

Sexuality is a mode in which human mutuality is expressed.

Maybe a more positive valuing of human sexuality, which is evident in contemporary Christian thought, may help to combat the trivializing of it in Western society.

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.»

On the contrary, there are standards of right and wrong within Christian tradition concerning human sexuality, based in human nature and biblical revelation, which are acceptable to homosexual and heterosexual alike, and which can form the moral basis of public policy.

Finally, and with its physiological grounding in that sexuality which is integral to human existence, there is the drive towards, and the capacity for, loving.

There is a sort of weird absurdity which dictates that the realities of human sexuality, and the transmission of life itself, must be subjected to a current ideology.

They also have the right to expect that the moral and social context within which the programme is taught is clearly Catholic, that children come away with a clear understanding of social relationships and the moral context in which sexual intimacy should occur, and an understanding of why the Catholic Church teaches what it teaches about the human body, sexuality, and friendship.

One finds in Wojtyta's works on human love and sexuality an alternative to both pre-Conciliar Jansenism and the fiction of «free love»; in it he develops an explicitly Trinitarian anthropology which elevates human life and love to the level of a dramatic participation in the Divine life itself.

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.

Yet this may be the importance of the popular song — and that for the reason that human sexuality and the capacity to love (in all the aspects which I have listed) are closely associated.

Grenz explains (in a few different sections, which should be read together: pp. 20 - 21, 210, 219 - 222, 243) that sexuality is the dynamic behind all human bonding.

of human experience.6 In all fairness the image could be inverted, for theology has failed to include in its explanations «lower» elements of experience (sexuality, family relations, human psychological development), which is equally reductionist.7

Each of us is a sexual creature like others in the animal kingdom, although our human sexuality is also different from that which we observe in that kingdom.

Second, we know that family life is essential to human sexuality because reproduction is complete when there exists another adult instance of the species, and in human beings this only results after a long period of dependency, socialization, and education which takes place within a family.

This desire is prompted by a more wholistic understanding of the person and of the ways in which sexuality is present in all of human experience.

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

By ordering and directing sexuality, that central aspect of our human nature will become still another channel through which we serve the divine Lover, in and by means of the proximate and creaturely human loving natural for us.

What we can do in prayer is to take our sexual instinct and let it find, for the time being, its center in a love that is utterly demanding and entirely good and which will purify human sexuality and rightly order and pattern it, although it will not destroy it nor remove its urgency and its physical accompaniments.

Which beliefs, customs, and institutions governing sexuality best promote their human flourishing?

Yo moron, sexuality wasn't studied till the 19th century which is why the experts determined just recently that heterosexual behavior and homosexual behavior are normal aspects of human sexuality.

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.

Policies based on negatives are irresponsible, particularly in an age in which we have so much knowledge and understanding of human sexuality.

In other words, they have failed to relate human sexuality, in its genital expression, to process and sociality, which is the way God works in the world.

I must make one final comment, which has to do with the religious dimension of human sexuality in all its aspects.

As we have said, it is very likely that the area of sexual morality is central here, not only because it has to do with a problem of such striking contemporary relevance but because it follows from the significant role which sexuality plays in the total pattern of human life.

The human expression of sexuality is always indicative of the personal quality of those who engage in such activity; and sexual acts which help to develop genuine personal life, but without destroying or damaging healthy human social relationships, must be evaluated in terms of the tenderness, mutuality, and faithfulness they display, even if they may seem to violate some inherited code.

Sexuality has been for him a mode of human activity through which to explore society's present sterility and its future hope.

A gift, however, not a loan or a mere permission to use - which is a travesty of the human meaning or exercise of sexuality.

The fruit of much of this work can be read in his book Love and Responsibility, written when he was a bishop, which is a philosophical work on human sexuality.

Dear friends — I am pleased to announce the release of my latest work entitled «Human Sexuality, Pornography and the Attack on Human Love,» which is now available on DVD as a two - part DVD set.

Well, Superdrug had some of the same questions, which is why they surveyed more than 2,000 people in Europe and the United States to get more insight into the human experience of sexuality and our attitudes toward it.

The film teases the audience with clues and foreboding hints at the causes of the malaise, but never offers anything concrete or literal, instead creating a rich allegorical framework from which an endless array of fascinating questions are raised as to how power may be intermingled with issues such as history, education, class, family, gender, sexuality and ultimately the impossibility of human communication and understanding.

Masters Of Sex opens its third season on the brink of Masters and Johnson's greatest triumph: the long - awaited publication of their volume on Human Sexual Response, which revolutionized the way the country viewed sexuality.

Gamer (R for nudity, sexuality, profanity and pervasive graphic violence) Sci - fi thriller, set in the near future, revolving around the attempt of a human gladiator (Gerard Butler) to free himself from the clutches of a deadly mind - control game invented by a voyeuristic, reclusive billionaire (Michael C. Hall) which pits people against each other.

That's what I loved about it because I read it and I just thought, here are three three - dimensional humans who have their own individual personalities and their sexuality and it's all completely normalized, which I feel like it should be because I think if you're in a loving respectful relationship, then as far as I'm concerned, anything goes and that's what I loved about the film.

Accompanying that are scenes in which she studies her own relationship to humanity: trying to eat cake, being helped by people after falling on the sidewalk, and even trying to engage in human sexuality herself.