The Sexual Morality Decline
The Sexual Morality Decline

Author: Emmanuel Saidi

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780595384860

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The Sexual Morality Decline is a comprehensive guide for those seeking to understand human sexuality and redefine that understanding through a standard of ethics that encourages self-love and love of others. Author Emmanuel Saidi explores modern attitudes toward sex and the factors that have contributed to their development. Drawing extensively on Judeo-Christian traditions, he teaches that sexuality is an integral part of physical, spiritual, intellectual, and emotional health and is often evident in how people relate to one another. Saidi shares his thoughts on what healthy sexual ethics should encompass and also delves into such topics as the following: The influence that traditional Christian teaching has on society's perception of sex and human sexuality How the experiences and traditions of the past forge an intricate connection between body and spirit The importance of incorporating virtues into sexual teaching The case method of resolving moral conflicts, using the HIV/AIDS epidemic as an example The Sexual Morality Decline provides a clearer understanding of today's attitudes toward sex and sexuality.

Sexual Morality in Ancient Rome
Sexual Morality in Ancient Rome

Author: Rebecca Langlands

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-05-25

Total Pages: 409

ISBN-13: 0521859433

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A 2006 study of Roman sexuality and sexual ethics focusing on the crucial and unsettled concept of pudicitia.

True Sexual Morality
True Sexual Morality

Author: Daniel R. Heimbach

Publisher: Crossway

Published: 2004-11-09

Total Pages: 530

ISBN-13: 1433516020

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Daniel Heimbach examines the biblical teachings on sexual morality as well as four counterfeit views that have crept into our "sexually revolutionized" society. He gives us an in-depth look at the moral relativism that has spread through our culture and opens our eyes to the effects that nonbiblical sexual choices have on individuals, the family, the church, and the culture.

Sexual Morality in a Christless World
Sexual Morality in a Christless World

Author: Matthew Rueger

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780758656384

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Like in St. Paul's day, the Church around the world-and particularly in the United States-now frequently faces hostility at the first mention of homosexuality in casual conversations or public-square debates. Author Matthew Rueger openly embraces this hot topic, giving you a framework for defending your beliefs by first exploring the relationship between sexual sin in ancient history and twenty-first-century tangles of the same flavor. Topics such as temptation, promiscuity, marriage, homosexuality, natural law, and the church's role in it all then swirl together to reveal our unifying need for a Savior. Rueger writes compassionately with a father's heart and adamantly with a determination to outline the truth about sexual morality from a reasoned Christian perspective. We need to expect the unpleasant from our opponents, arm ourselves with answers to common objections, and speak in clarity and love. And let's not lose sight of the church as a place of refuge for those who are battered down by their desires. Real people with real struggles are being lost. Find Your Voice. Book jacket.

Sex Before the Sexual Revolution
Sex Before the Sexual Revolution

Author: Simon Szreter

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-10-14

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 1139492896

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What did sex mean for ordinary people before the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, who were often pitied by later generations as repressed, unfulfilled and full of moral anxiety? This book provides the first rounded, first-hand account of sexuality in marriage in the early and mid-twentieth century. These award-winning authors look beyond conventions of silence among the respectable majority to challenge stereotypes of ignorance and inhibition. Based on vivid, compelling and frank testimonies from a socially and geographically diverse range of individuals, the book explores a spectrum of sexual experiences, from learning about sex and sexual practices in courtship, to attitudes to the body, marital ideals and birth control. It demonstrates that while the era's emphasis on silence and strict moral codes could for some be a source of inhibition and dissatisfaction, for many the culture of privacy and innocence was central to fulfilling and pleasurable intimate lives.

Three Philosophies of Life
Three Philosophies of Life

Author: Peter Kreeft

Publisher: Ignatius Press

Published: 2009-12-08

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 1681495910

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"I've been a philosopher for all my adult life and the three most profound books of philosophy that I have ever read are Ecclesiastes, Job, and Song of Songs." These are the opening lines of Kreeft's Three Philosophies of Life. He reflects that there are ultimately only three philosophies of life and each one is represented by one of these books of the Bible-life is vanity; life is suffering; life is love. In these three books Kreeft shows how we have Dante's great epic The Divine Comedy played out, from Hell to Purgatory to Heaven. But it is an epic played out in our hearts and lives, here and now. Just as there is movement in Dante's epic, so there is movement in these books, from Ecclesiates to Job, from Job to Song of Songs. Love is the final answer to Ecclesiastes' quest, the alternative to vanity, and the true meaning of life. Finally, Kreeft sees in these books the epitome of theological virtues of faith, hope and love and "an esstential summary of the spiritual history of the world".

Soul, Self, and Society
Soul, Self, and Society

Author: Edward L. Rubin

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 505

ISBN-13: 0199348650

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Morality is not declining in the modern world. Instead, a new morality is replacing the previous one. Centered on individual self-fulfillment, and linked to administrative government, it permits things the old morality forbid, like sex for pleasure, but forbids things the old morality allowed, like intolerance and equality of opportunity.

Catholic Sexual Morality
Catholic Sexual Morality

Author: Robert Fastiggi

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2018-01-04

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 1532641303

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Many people today believe that the traditional Catholic view of sex is antiquated, unrealistic, and potentially harmful. In Catholic Sexual Morality, Dr. Robert Fastiggi asks whether the permissive sexual attitude of today’s culture is really contributing to deeper love, better relationships, and true happiness for men, women, children, and families. He begins with the example of St. Augustine who recognized he was a slave to lust and in need of true freedom. Fastiggi then examines the foundations for Catholic sexual morality in Scripture, reason, and human experience. The hope is that people will realize that the Catholic Church is not “against sex” but sees sexual intimacy as something so beautiful and life-giving that it requires the stability of marriage for its true and rightful expression. Catholic Sexual Morality is grounded in the belief that the church’s teachings on sex correspond to God’s plan for human happiness. These teachings are challenging, and the church understands how easy it is to fail in sexual matters. God’s mercy, however, is more powerful than human weakness and sin. This book explains the reasons why the Catholic Church teaches as she does on matters such as pornography, masturbation, fornication, adultery, contraception, divorce, and homosexual acts. It presents these teachings in a realistic way with full recognition of the reasons why people reject them. The ultimate desire is to help people understand that Catholic sexual morality is not a creation of church leaders but a response to what God has made known to us in Sacred Scripture and the natural law. In a world filled with infidelity, divorce, wounded children, and broken hearts, the wisdom of traditional Catholic sexual morality deserves a more sympathetic view—not just because it is Catholic but because it is true.

Moral Combat
Moral Combat

Author: R. Marie Griffith

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2017-12-12

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 0465094767

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From an esteemed scholar of American religion and sexuality, a sweeping account of the century of religious conflict that produced our culture wars Gay marriage, transgender rights, birth control -- sex is at the heart of many of the most divisive political issues of our age. The origins of these conflicts, historian R. Marie Griffith argues, lie in sharp disagreements that emerged among American Christians a century ago. From the 1920s onward, a once-solid Christian consensus regarding gender roles and sexual morality began to crumble, as liberal Protestants sparred with fundamentalists and Catholics over questions of obscenity, sex education, and abortion. Both those who advocated for greater openness in sexual matters and those who resisted new sexual norms turned to politics to pursue their moral visions for the nation. Moral Combat is a history of how the Christian consensus on sex unraveled, and how this unraveling has made our political battles over sex so ferocious and so intractable.