Sex, Gender, and Christian Ethics

Name: Sex, Gender, and Christian Ethics
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ISBN: 9780521578486

ISBN-10: 0521578485

ISBN-13: 9780521578486

Edition: 1996

Authors: Lisa Sowle Cahill, Robin Gill, Stephen R. L. Clark, Stanley M. Hauerwas, Robin W. Lovin

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This book endorses feminist critiques of gender, yet upholds the insight of traditional Christianity that sex, commitment and parenthood are fulfilling human relations. Their unity is a positive ideal, though not an absolute norm. Women and men should enjoy equal personal respect and social power. In reply to feminist critics of oppressive gender and sex norms and to communitarian proponents of Christian morality, Cahill argues that effective intercultural criticism of injustice requires a modest defence of moral objectivity. She thus adopts a critical realism as its moral foundation, drawing on Aristotle and Aquinas. Moral judgment should be based on reasonable, practical, prudent and…

Book details

List price: $56.99
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/28/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 348
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.54" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English




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