Sister Margaret Farley’s book, Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics,

Vatican Scolds Nun for Book on Sexuality

 

 

Vatican Denounces Prominent Nun's Book on Sexuality
The church claims that Farley's views on masturbation, homosexuality present a "defective understanding" of Catholic theology.

 

By Cindy Ok | Posted Monday, June 4, 2012, at 4:26 PM ET

Pope Benedict XVI approved the denouncement of the book and ordered it published
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A prominent American nun's bid to offer some "contemporary interpretations" of Catholic teaching on human sexuality isn't going over so well with the Vatican.

The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the church's official orthodoxy office, issued a statement on Monday declaring that Sister Margaret Farley’s book, Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics, presents a "defective understanding" of Catholic theology and should not be used by Roman Catholics, the New York Times reports.

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Farley, an award-winning ethicist who taught Christian ethics at Yale Divinity School, published the book in 2006, and it came under Vatican investigation four years later. The church cites Farley's views of masturbation as positive, homosexuality as respectable, and remarriage after divorce as acceptable as proof that her book is irreconcilable with Catholic teaching.

Despite the Vatican's opposition, more than a dozen theological scholars, along with the largest nun’s organization in America, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, offered their support for Farley and declared the Vatican’s accusations unjustified.

In her own written response, Farley defended her book, saying that by writing it she sought only to offer "contemporary interpretations of traditional meanings for the human body, gender, and sexuality," and that she concedes that some of its views "are not in accord with current official Catholic teaching." She added: "I can only clarify that the book was not intended to be an expression of current official Catholic teaching, nor was it aimed specifically against this teaching. It is of a different genre altogether."

Just Love:

A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics

Margaret A. Farley

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Continuum International Publishing Group, 2006/6/1 - 322 頁

This long-awaited book by one of American Christianity's foremost ethicists proposes a framework for sexual ethics whereby justice is the criterion for all loving, including love that is related to sexual activity and relationships. It begins with historical and crosscultural explorations, and then addresses the large questions of embodiment, gender, and sexuality. Following this is a normative chapter that delineates the justice framework for sexual ethics. Though the particular focus is Christian sexual ethics, the framework is broad enough to have relevance for multiple traditions of sexual ethics. The remaining chapters focus on specific issues in sexual ethics, including same-sex relationships, marriage and family, divorce and second marriage, celibacy, and sex and its negativities.

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Terrain	12
Theories of Interpretation	18
From the Past to the Present	56
Coloniahst Research and Its Postcolonial Critics	63
SEXUALITY AND ITS MEANINGS	109
More Experience 149 Whether Gender Matters	156

Just Sex	207
Norms for Just Sex	215
Special Questions	232
Given or Chosen	294
INDEX	313
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