Not exact matches
I have flagged up the problem of consent as the foundation of
sexual ethics before, but it seems that legal thinking on marriage has thus far proceeded
without having to acknowledge the manifold difficulties inherent in the concept.
Since the nineteenth century, the
sexual ethics of «the family pew» have been conceptualized in Old Testament terms
without much reference to modifications introduced by Jesus» law of love.
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.