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God, science, sex, gender : an interdisciplinary approach to Christian ethics

Title

God, science, sex, gender : an interdisciplinary approach to Christian ethics / edited by Patricia Beattie Jung and Aana Marie Vigen, with John Anderson.

Format

Book

Published

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2010.

Description

viii, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other contributors

Jung, Patricia Beattie. Vigen, Aana Marie. Anderson, John.

Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-275) and indexes.

Contents

• Red hats : Catholic sexual ethics in the face of church authority / Jon Nilson
• White coats : boundary disputes between scientific and religious authority / Anne E. Figert
• What's all the fuss about? The conflict between science and religion over sexual diversity / Fred Kniss
• Medieval attitudes toward philosophia naturalis in relation to scientia moralis / Francis J. Catania
• Patriarchy, purity, and procreativity : developments in Catholic teachings on human sexuality and gender / Patricia Beattie Jung
• Evolutionary biology and sexual diversity / Joan Roughgarden
• The evolution of sex / Terry Grande and Joel Brown, with Robin Colburn
• Interpreting the theology of creation : binary gender in Catholic thought / John McCarthy
• "Passing" and identity : a literary perspective on gender and sexual diversity / Pamela L. Caughie
• Monogamy and sexual diversity in primates : can evolutionary biology contribute to Christian sexual ethics? / James Calcagno
• "In God's image" and "male and female" : how a little punctuation might have helped / Robert Di Vito
• Social selection and sexual diversity : implications for Chrisitan ethics / Stephen J. Pope
• The triumph of diversity : Hopkins's "Pied Beauty" / Frank Fennell
• Christ as bride : toward a Christology of diversity / Susan A. Ross
• Gender in heaven : the story of the Ethiopian eunuch in light of evolutionary biology / Patricia Beattie Jung and Joan Roughgarden
• Conclusion : descriptive and normative ways of understanding human nature / Aana Marie Vigen.

Kinsey subjects

Religious sex ethics Religion and science.

ISBN

9780252035371 (cloth : alk. paper) 0252035372 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780252077241 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0252077245 (pbk. : alk. paper)