Making love just
Subtitle: sexual ethics for perplexing times
By: Marvin M. Ellison
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
ISBN-13: 9780800698843; 9781451424409
Subjects: Sex; Christianity; Sexual ethics
Description: "These days sexual sin is far less about sex and far more about the misuse of power and exploitation of vulnerability. It's time to redraw the ethical map. But how should a contemporary Christian ethic of sexuality be formulated? Marvin Ellison, a pioneer in contemporary Christian rethinking of sexuality and sexual ethics, uses a series of provocative questions to increase readers' skills and confidence for engaging in ethical deliberation about sexuality. Students and all adults will welcome this book for enabling their personal clarity, approach to relationships, and mindful participation in respectful moral debate."--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: where do we draw our lines, and why? an invitation to ethical inquiry; title: Why do we have to keep talking about sex all the time?; title: What makes "good sex" good?; title: Is it still adultery if the spouse has alzheimer's?; title: Is same-sex marriage a "must" or a "bust?"; title: Why don't batterers just leave and rapists just "cease and desist?"; title: Is "pro-choice" what we mean to say?; title: What do we have to learn from, as well as teach, young people about sex?; title: Epilogue: how far can we draw outside the lines and still be in the picture?.