Sexual Desire and Love: Origins and History of the Christian Ethic of Sexuality and Marriage

by Eric Fuchs

Book Overview

In a comprehensive, ground-breaking study of the Christian teaching about sexuality, Eric Fuchs surveys the "taboos of Judaeo-Christian morality." He looks at the ethics of sexuality as they are presented in the Bible, and by early theologians, medieval scholastics, reformers and counter-reformers, and present-day thinkers. Through it all he is concerned to answer the question: "By what mysterious alchemy did the liberating Gospel of Christ who unconditionally...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0227678761
• ISBN13: 9780227678763
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: James Clarke Company
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"