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Author Sullivan, Clayton, 1930-

Title Rescuing sex from the Christians / Clayton Sullivan.

Imprint New York : Continuum, c2006.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  241.66 Su53r 2006    ---  Available
Description ix, 132 p. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The first mistake : misunderstanding Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden -- Adam and Eve and the euhemerous fallacy -- Augustine of Hippo -- Billy Graham and the Adam and Eve story -- Roman Catholicism and the Adam and Eve story : a marinade of sin and shame -- The second mistake : the divided self concept -- The divided self concept -- Socrates and the divided self -- Saint Paul and the divided self -- Augustine and the divided self -- By way of recapitulation -- Masturbation and the harm principle -- Homosexuality and the harm principle -- Word definitions and the Sodom story -- Homosexuality : a puzzle -- The Bible and cultural relativism -- An appeal to Jerry Falwell -- An appeal to homosexuals -- Two suggestions -- Fornication, adultery, and the harm principle -- A definition of terms -- The sinfulness of fornication -- Adultery and the harm principle -- Prostitution and the harm principle -- Some concluding remarks.
Subject Sex -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Sexual ethics.
Christian ethics.
Consequentialism (Ethics)
ISBN 0826417922 (pbk.)
Standard No. IG# 0826417922
YDXCP 2377109

 
    
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