num_pages: 368
description: This book is a polemic on the subject of the Catholic Church's teachings on women and sexuality. It is written by the first woman ever licensed to teach theology in a German university by the Roman Catholic Church. She eventually published her views on Mary's Virgin Birth and was unlicensed by the Church. She now holds the chair in the History of Religion at the University of Essen. The author traces the two thousand years of history from Paul to John Paul II in which the Church has manipulated and mutilated the sexuality of believers. She maintains and documents that the Church has denigrated sex, degraded women, and championed a perverse ideal of celibacy. She argues, with great passion, that the Church is wrong and must rethink its positions in these matters.
language: English
title: Eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven: Women, Sexuality, and the Catholic Church
titlecomplete: Eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven: Women, Sexuality, and the Catholic Church
genres: Religion, Philosophy, Medieval History, Spirituality, Nonfiction, Womens, Gender Studies, Feminism, History, Christianity
ratings_count: 194
publisher: Doubleday