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Sexual Desire and Love
Eric Fuchs
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1979
Publisher
James Clarke & Co Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780227678763
SKU
V9780227678763
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About Eric Fuchs
Eric Fuchs, a Swiss Protestant pastor, was Director of the Protestant Study Centre in Geneva. He is Head of the Ethics Department of the Faculty of Theology at the University of Geneva, Switzerland.
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