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Abbreviations for Sources | |
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Prologue | |
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"Nature" Defined | |
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Perspectivism versus Relativism | |
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"Nature," knowledge, and Norms | |
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Conscience | |
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Questions for Reflection | |
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Notes | |
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Sexual Morality in the Catholic Tradition | |
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Historicity | |
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Sexuality and Sexual Ethics in Ancient Greece and Rome | |
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Sexuality and Sexual Ethics in the Catholic Tradition | |
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Reading Sacred Scripture | |
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Old Testament Teaching | |
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New Testament Teaching | |
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The Fathers of the Church | |
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Augustine | |
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The Penitentials | |
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Scholastic Doctrine | |
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The Modern Period | |
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Von Hildebrand and Doms | |
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Second Vatican Council | |
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Papal Birth Control Commission | |
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Conclusion | |
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Questions for Reflections | |
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Notes | |
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Unitive Sexual Morality | |
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Conjugal Love and Sexual Intercourse | |
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Multiple Dimensions of Human Sexuality | |
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Chastity | |
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Truly Human and Complementarity | |
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Sexual Orientation Complementarity and Truly Human Sexual Acts: A Reconstructed Complementarity | |
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Holistic Complementarity, Truly Human Sexual Acts, and Sexual Norms | |
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Conclusion | |
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Questions for Reflection | |
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Notes | |
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Martial Morality | |
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Modern Catholic Thought and Marital Morality | |
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Marital Morality and Contraception | |
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Contraception and Historical Contexts | |
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A Renewed Principle of Human Sexuality and Contraception | |
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Totality and the Conjugal Act | |
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The Inseparability Principle Revisited | |
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Conclusion | |
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Questions for Reflection | |
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Notes | |
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Cohabitation and the Process of Marrying | |
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Cohabitation in the Contemporary West: What the Sciences Tell us | |
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The Meaning and Nature of Commitment | |
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Betrothal and the Christian Tradition | |
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Historical Considerations | |
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Sociotheological Considerations | |
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Complementarity and Nuptical Cohabitation | |
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Marriage as Sacrament | |
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Catechumenate for Marriage | |
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Conclusion | |
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Questions for Reflection | |
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Notes | |
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Homosexuality | |
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The Bible and Homosexuality | |
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Homosexual Orientation and the Bible | |
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Interpreting the Bible on Homosexuality | |
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Magisterial Teaching on Homosexual Acts and Relationships | |
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The Moral Sense of the Christian People and Homosexual Acts | |
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The Morality of Homosexual Acts Reconsidered | |
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Conclusion | |
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Questions for Reflection | |
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Notes | |
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Artificial Reproductive Technologies | |
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Defining Artificial Reproductive Technologies | |
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The CDF's Instruction and ARTs | |
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ARTs and Health Complications among Children | |
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Family and Society: ARTs and the Common Good | |
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Conclusions | |
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Questions for Reflection | |
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Notes | |
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Epilogue | |
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Intrachurch Dialogue | |
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Extrachurch Dialogue | |
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Questions for Reflection | |
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Notes | |
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Index | |