Eros and Transformation
Sexuality and Marriage: An Eastern Orthodox Perspective
Eros and Transformation
Sexuality and Marriage: An Eastern Orthodox Perspective
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Hardback
£65.00
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780819186478
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 05/06/1992
Width: 15.2 cm
Height: 22.9 cm
This book is a comprehensive exposition of Eastern Orthodox sexual ethics, including biblical, liturgical, and theological discussions of marriage, divorce, homosexuality, contraception, and masturbation. This work seeks to integrate a critical examination of the Orthodox tradition on these questions in a dialogue with modern clinical knowledge and contemporary Catholic moral theology.
Marriage and the New Testament; Marriage in the Patristic Tradition; Marriage in the Liturgical Tradition; Modern Approaches to Marriage, Greek Tradition, Russian Tradition; Divorce and Remarriage in Orthodox Faith, New Testament Tradition, Patristic Tradition; Divorce and Remarriage in Orthodox Practice, Canonical Tradition and its Theological Justification; Orthodoxy and Contraception; Masturbation and Moral Theology; Homosexuality and Moral Theology; Eros and Transformation.
Much useful information may be found in Father Basil Zion's book. -- Nicholas Lossky, Studies in Christian Ethics. * Eglise et Theologie * Students of moral theology will welcome this very detailed presentation of an Eastern Orthodox perspective on sexual ethics, which has the added merit of being elaborated in dialogue with other Christian Traditions, particularly the Roman Catholic Tradition. * Eglise et Theologie * Students of moral theology will welcome this very detailed presentation of an Eastern Orthodox perspective on sexual ethics, which has the added merit of being elaborated in dialogue with other Christian Traditions, particularly the Roman Catholic Tradition. * Eglise et Theologie * Much useful information may be found in Father Basil Zion's book. -- Nicholas Lossky, Studies in Christian Ethics. * Eglise et Theologie *
