Rescuing sex from the Christians
By: Clayton Sullivan.
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 132
Subjects: Sex -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.; Sexual ethics.; Christian ethics.; Consequentialism (Ethics)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The first mistake : misunderstanding Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden; title: Adam and Eve and the euhemerous fallacy; title: Augustine of Hippo; title: Billy Graham and the Adam and Eve story; title: Roman Catholicism and the Adam and Eve story : a marinade of sin and shame; title: The second mistake : the divided self concept; title: The divided self concept; title: Socrates and the divided self; title: Saint Paul and the divided self; title: Augustine and the divided self; title: By way of recapitulation; title: Masturbation and the harm principle; title: Homosexuality and the harm principle; title: Word definitions and the Sodom story; title: Homosexuality : a puzzle; title: The Bible and cultural relativism; title: An appeal to Jerry Falwell; title: An appeal to homosexuals; title: Two suggestions; title: Fornication, adultery, and the harm principle; title: A definition of terms; title: The sinfulness of fornication; title: Adultery and the harm principle; title: Prostitution and the harm principle; title: Some concluding remarks.