TY  - BOOK
AU  - McCarty,Richard W.
TI  - Sexual Virtue: an Approach to Contemporary Christian Ethics 
SN  - 9781438454306
AV  - BT708 .M415 2015eb
U1  - 241/.664 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Albany
PB  - State University of New York Press
KW  - Sex
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Sexual ethics
KW  - Christian ethics
KW  - Sexualité
KW  - Aspect religieux
KW  - Christianisme
KW  - Morale sexuelle
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christian Theology
KW  - Ethics
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Part I. Getting situated -- Part II. A moral framework of virtue -- Part III. Religious sources of moral authority -- Part IV. Ends of sexual virtue
N2  - Richard W. McCarty offers a compassionate and inclusive conception of sexual virtue, one that liberates Christians from traditional patriarchal requirements for heterosexuality, marriage, and procreation. Daring to depart from ongoing debates about what Aristotle or Aquinas had to say, this book sets a new course centered on virtue ethics. It employs new insights from the sciences, biblical scholarship, analyses of church traditions, and revisionist natural law thinking. Eschewing simple deconstruction of traditional Christian norms for sexual morality, McCarty offers constructive ideas about what might count as real human goods for people in a wide variety of sexual relationships. Recreation, relational intimacy, and selective acts of procreation are three ends of sexual virtue that promote human happiness and can be appreciated in a broad Christian framework. While primarily referencing the Roman Catholic intellectual tradition, McCarty's work is also vital and accessible to those from Protestant backgrounds. Addressed to LGBT and straight readers, Sexual Virtue provides a compassionate sexual ethics for our time
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