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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 | |