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.
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.
However, it should be no surprise that traditional customs
regarding human sexuality are being challenged now that the greatest long term risk — an «inconvenient pregnancy» can be avoided with a high degree of success.
A lot of us are associated with groups like this, groups that, at least in our lifetime, aren't going to move away from traditional Christian teaching
regarding human sexuality and marriage.
Not exact matches
A conversation about
human rights is always in order, to be sure — particularly in
regard to issues of
human sexuality — but Isaiah is speaking of the remarkable generosity of God, who «will give an everlasting name» to the eunuchs, precisely those who could establish no name for themselves by the normal processes of procreation.
Understanding the Hebrew perspective on
human nature is crucial to any attempt to comprehend the teachings of Jesus and Pauline theology
regarding 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.
And so Jesus did in that sense say something indirectly however, in
regards to what God intended for
human sexuality and union between one man and one woman.
To grasp how these forces worked, one must understand that Greenberg accepts the anthropological insight, shared by Freudians and most sexologists, that
human sexuality is extremely plastic and innately nonspecific with
regard to sexual objects.
Decoupled from the state, the Church can preach the Gospel with
regard to marriage and
human sexuality generally, backed up by enforcement of its canonical and ascetic disciplines, without fear of state sanction» assuming the Church is willing to accept the burden of proclaiming a truth so contrary to the prevailing zeitgeist.
First of all, it implies some superficial beliefs about the place of
sexuality in
human experience (we might
regard these as being in the antechamber of the temple of sacred
sexuality proper): the belief that
sexuality is a key, perhaps even the key, component of the quality of being
human (in this, of course, lies the pervasive heritage of Freud); the belief that modern Western culture, and especially American culture, has unduly suppressed
sexuality (this is the anti-Puritan aspect of the proposition), and, that, as a result, not only are we sexually frustrated (and that frustration carries all sorts of physical and psychological pathologies in its wake), but our entire relation to our own bodies as well as the bodies of others has become distorted.
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Robin Milhausen, an associate professor of
Human Sexuality at the University of Guelph, agreed, citing a study by Russell Clark and Elaine Hatfield
regarding receptivity to sexual offers.