Creation and covenant : the significance of sexual difference in and for the moral theology of marriage /: the significance of sexual difference in and for the moral theology of marriage. (2007)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Christopher Chenault Roberts.
• Authors: Roberts, Christopher Chenault
• Contents: Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Five Early Theologians; Tatian; Tertullian; Clement of Alexandria; Gregory of Nyssa; Jerome; Conclusion; 2. Augustine; De Genesi contra Manichaeos; De Genesi ad litteram opus imperfectum; Expositio epistulae ad Galatas liber unus; Confessionum libri XIII; De bono conjugali and De sancta virginitate; De Genesi ad litteram; De Trinitate; De civitate Dei; De bono viduitatis, De continentia, and De incompetentibus nuptiis; De nuptiis et concupiscentia ad Valerium comitem and Contra Julianum; Summary. 3. Bernard of Clairvaux's Sermons on the Song of SongsBernard's Augustinian Beliefs about Sexual Difference; God's Love Is Bernard's Priority; The Logical Structure of Bernard's Use of Allegory: Its Precedents and Implications; Why Bernard's Eros Must Be Set in Sexually Differentiated Marriage; Further Reasons Why Sexual Difference Is the Right Analog; Conclusion: Redeemed Sexual Difference Includes More Than Fertility; 4. Thomas Aquinas; The Good of the Species, the Teleology of Sexual Difference, and the Anthropology of the Body; How Sexual Difference Is Morally Ordered in the Present Era. Conclusion, and a Contrast with Augustine5. Luther and Calvin; A Sermon on the Estate of Marriage (1519); Judgment of Martin Luther on Monastic Vows (1521/1522); The Estate of Marriage (1522); Commentary on 1 Corinthians 7 (1523); Lectures on Galatians (1535); Lectures on Genesis (1535/1536); Some Summarizing Thoughts about Luther; Calvin on Sexual Difference; A Concluding Thought on Both Reformers; 6. Karl Barth; Being and Knowledge in Christ: Creation for Covenant; The imago Dei and Sexual Difference; Sexual Difference Is a Permanent and Necessary Part of Human Identity. Bone of My Bones: A Portrait of the Recognition of Sexual DifferenceMarriage and Sexual Difference; Precedence and Subsequence: Further Specification of Sexual Difference; Why the Meaning of Sexual Difference Excludes Homosexuality and Fornication; Conclusion; 7. John Paul II; Prelapsarian Sexual Difference; Postlapsarian Sexual Difference; How Both Celibacy and Marriage Recognize the Significance of Sexual Difference; How Contemporary Vatican Teaching Summarizes John Paul II; The Question of Woman and the Question of Theological Method. 8. Three Proposals for the Insignificance of Sexual DifferenceChallenges to the Tradition; Sexual Difference Is Significant Only as a Figure of Speech; Ward's Argument; Criticism of Ward's Argument; Sexual Difference Is Insignificant for the Ascesis and Sacrament of Marriage; Criticisms of Barth; The Marginalization of Procreation; Do Asceticism and Desire Render Sexual Difference Insignificant?; Sexual Difference Is Insignificant for the Social Function of Marriage; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Z.
• Publisher Details: New York, New York London [England] : T & T Clark International
• Publication Date: 2007
• Copyright Date: 2007
• Extent: 1 online resource (281 pages)
• Subjects: 241/.63; Sex differences -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Marriage -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Ethics; Marriage -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780567269676; 0567269671
• Related ISBNs: 9780567026552; 9780567027467
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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