Sexual Desire and Love: Origins and History of the Christian Ethic of Sexuality and Marriage

by Eric Fuchs

Overview

In a comprehensive, ground-breaking study of the Christian teaching about sexuality, Eric Fuchs surveys the 'taboos of Judaeo-Christian morality.' He looks at the ethics of sexuality as they are presented in the Bible, and by early theologians, medieval scholastics, reformers and counter-reformers, and present-day thinkers. Through it all he is concerned to answer the question: 'By what mysterious alchemy did the liberating Gospel of Christ who unconditionally accepted wounded humanity become transformed into moral requirements that were so guilt forming?' Fuch's exhaustive study leads him to develop his own theological interpretation of sexuality: its liberating aspects in the fulfilment of human life, the completion of personality, end the expression of humanity's highest ideals.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780227678763
Publisher:	James Clarke & Co. Ltd
Publication date:	01/07/1979
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x (d)

About the Author

Fuchs, a Swiss Protestant pastor, has been Director of the Protestant Study Center in Geneva. He is now head of the ethics department of the Faculty of Theology at the University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Table of Contents

Introduction Part I: Human Significances of Sexuality 1. The Symbolic Control of Sexuality 2. Sexuality and Speech a. The Truths of Physiology b. The Developments of Culture c. The Law of Language and the Humanization of Sexuality 3. Conclusion Part II: Man and Woman in the Image of God: Scriptural Theology of Sexuality 1. The Order of Differentiation: Sexuality Between Life and Death 2. In the Beginning, Otherness a.