CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE
BACKGROUND CONSIDERATIONS
1. Theological Background to Reappraisal of Sexual Morality
2. Our Position
CHAPTER TWO
REAPPRAISAL OF CHASTITY…
1. Relational-Divine Dimension of Sex
1.1. The Divine Dimension of Eros
1.2. Intimate Relationship Between Sexuality and Spirituality
1.3. Sex as a Gift of God
1.4. Spiritual Value of Sexual Love 33 1.5.SexualLoveasAgape
1.6. Spiritual Aspects of Heterosexual Friendship
Sacramental Value of Heterosexual Friendship
Ascetical Aspects of Heterosexual Friendship
Heterosexual Friendship as Remedy against Selfishness
Heterosexual Friendship as Powerful Aid to Prayer
Heterosexual Friendship as Incentive to Fraternal Charity
Heterosexual Friendship as Aid to Celibate Living
1.7. Heterosexual Friendship as God-Experience
1.8. Religious Dimension of Sexual Pleasure
1.9. Nudity and Spirituality
1.10. Beauty and Spirituality
1.11. Sacramentality of Marital Sexuality
1.12. Marital Sex as Spiritual Experience
1.13. Conjugal Intimacy as an Act of Virtue
1.14. Ascetical Aspects of Conjugal Intimacy
1.15. Family Life as Spiritual Adventure
1.16. Divine Dimension of Sex in the Opinion of Authors
1.17. Divine Dimension of Sex from the Viewpoint
of Theological Reasoning
2. Relational-Human Dimension of Sex
3. Reproductive Dimension of Sex
4. Recreational Dimension of Sex
4.1. Pleasure Dimension of Sex
4.2. Theology of Sexual Pleasure
4.2.1. Value of Pleasure in General
Pleasure: A Biblical Perspective
Pleasure, the Perfection of Action
Pleasure, the Servant of Virtue
Other Benefits of Pleasure .
Pleasure and Original Sin
Virtue of Sensibility
Virtuous Enjoyment of Pleasure
4.2.2. Value of Sexual P.leasure
4.2.3. What about the Theology of the Cross?
Jesus and Pleasure
True Meaning of Self-control
True Meaning of Asceticism
True Meaning of “Total Renunciation”
4.2.4. Morality of Sexual Pleasure
4.2.5. An Evaluation of Traditional Understanding of
Chastity as Avoidance of Non-Marital Sexual Pleasure
Not in Agreement with Present-day Official Teaching
Data of Scripture
The Mind of Christ
Opinion of the Churches
Chastity Needs a More Direct Relationship with Charity
Close Relationship between Chastity and Pleasure
Sexual Pleasure Needs a Moral Determinant
Based on a False Notion of Sex and Sexual Pleasure
Non-Marital Sexual Pleasure Need Not Necessarily be Lust
Opinion of Theologians
5. Primacy of Relational-Divine and Relational-Human Dimensions
5.1. Primacy of Relational-Divine Dimension
5.2. Priority of Relational-Human Dimension
Data from the Bible
Data from the Experience of Married People
Married Sex Life is Good in Itself and Does Not
Require Procreative Justification
Sex Is Not Absolutely Necessary for Reproduction
Sterile’Marriages Are Real Marriages
A Series of Marital Acts Is Necessary for Procreation
Not Every Conception Is Procreation
Procreation is Never Automatically Good 204 Possibility of Conception and Inclination to
Union Are Not Parallel
Based on Lack of Knowledge of Sexual Facts
Based on a Defective Heritage of Philosophy
The Signs of the Times
Traditional Teaching Reflects Male Physical Experience
Presence of Inconsistency
Keeping the Two Dimensions Together in Principle
Poets Hardly Speak of Procreation
6. Definition of Chastity
CHAPTER THREE
RENEWED NORMS OF CHASTITY
1. Norm of Prayer Experience
2. Norm of Good Character
3. Norm of Friendship
CONCLUSION
INDEX ENDNOTE
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