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One Body: An Essay in Christian Sexual Ethics (ND Studies in Ethics and Culture)

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Description for One Body: An Essay in Christian Sexual Ethics (ND Studies in Ethics and Culture) Paperback. Series: Notre Dame Studies in Ethics and Culture. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: HRAM1; HRCV4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.

This important philosophical reflection on love and sexuality from a broadly Christian perspective is aimed at philosophers, theologians, and educated Christian readers. Alexander R. Pruss focuses on foundational questions on the nature of romantic love and on controversial questions in sexual ethics on the basis of the fundamental idea that romantic love pursues union of two persons as one body.

One Body begins with an account, inspired by St. Thomas Aquinas, of the general nature of love as constituted by components of goodwill, appreciation, and unitiveness. Different forms of love, such as parental, collegial, filial, friendly, fraternal, or romantic, ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
Series
Notre Dame Studies in Ethics and Culture
Number of Pages
478
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268038977
SKU
V9780268038977
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About Alexander R. Pruss
Alexander R. Pruss is associate professor of philosophy at Baylor University. He is the author and co-editor of a number of books, including The Principle of Sufficient Reason: A Reassessment.

Reviews for One Body: An Essay in Christian Sexual Ethics (ND Studies in Ethics and Culture)
"This is a terrific—really quite extraordinary—work of scholarship. It is quite simply the best work on Christian sexual ethics that I have seen. It will become the text that anyone who ventures into the field will have to grapple with—a kind of touchstone. Moreover, it is filled with arguments that even secular writers on sexual morality will have to engage ... Read more

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