Tag: 05 sexual ethics
Marriage – A Treasure To Be Kept: Gender, Sexuality and Communion in the Bible and Christian Tradition (Humphrey, 2010)
If we muddle our thinking about human beings, it is quite likely we will be muddled about God, and vice versa. Adam, man and woman, the Church are creatures of God and also potent pictures given to us by God to point to Himself. Thinking carefully about sexual matters means to think carefully about the nature of humanity, of the world’s fallen condition, of the Church, and of God, as shown to us in the Son.
Same-Sex Unions (2): What Is Disordered Sexuality? (Humphrey)
Sexual disorder is at once, then, profoundly personal and clearly communal in its effects.
Sex and Politics: Bertrand Russell and ‘Human Sexuality’ (Hauerwas, 1978)
“Rather, it is a mistake to follow the way the report invites us to think about human sexuality because it, like a great deal of Protestant and secular thought, assumes that the basis for any ethics of sex involves an interpretation of “wholesome interpersonal relations.” The dominant assumption has been that the evaluation of different kinds of sexual expressions should center on whether they are or are not expressive of love. On the contrary, the ethics of sex must begin with political considerations, because ethically the issue of the proper form of sexual activity raises the most profound issues about the nature and form of political community. I am not denying that sex obviously has to do with interpersonal matters, but I am asserting that we do not even know what we need to say about the personal level until we have some sense of the political context necessary for the ordering of sexual activity”.
Cohabitation in the 21st century by John Hayward and Guy Brandon (Jubilee Centre, 2010)
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Law, Morality and “Sexual Orientation” (Finnis, 1994)
During the past thirty years there has emerged in Europe a standard form of legal regulation of sexual conduct….which I shall call the “standard modern [European] position”…The standard modern European position has two limbs. On the one hand, the state is not authorized to, and does not, make it a punishable offence for adult consenting persons to engage, in private, in immoral sexual acts (for example, homosexual acts). On the other hand, states do have the authority to discourage say homosexual conduct and “”orientation” (ie overtly manifested active willingness to engage in homosexual conduct). And, typically, though not univerally, they do so.