Contributor
Rogers, Eugene F., Jr.
Imprint:Oxford, UK ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 2002.
Descriptionxxii, 422 p. : music ; 24 cm.
Note:PART I: HOW AND HOW NOT TO THINK THEOLOGICALLY ABOUT THE BODY: 1. Embodient in time and eternity: a Syriac perspective / Susan A. Harvey -- 2. The appeal to experience / George P. Schner -- PART II: LITURGICAL RESOURCES: 3. The celebration and blessing of a marriage / from The Book of Common Prayer -- 4. The betrothal service / from the Service Book of the Holy Orthodox-Catholic Apostolic Church -- 5. Order of Second Marriage / from the Service Book of the Holy Orthodox-Catholic Apostolic Church -- 6. Office of same-sex union (11th century) / from Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe -- 7. Tomorrow shall be my dancing day / from The Shorter New Oxford Book of Carols -- PART III: CLASSICAL RESOURCES: 8. The good of marriage (excerpt) / St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo -- 9. Homily I on Marriage (excerpt) / St. John Chrysostom -- 10. Against the opponents of the monastic life (excerpt) / St. John Chrysostom 11. Hymns of divine love, 15 / St. Symeon the New Theologian -- 12. Commentary on Romans 1:18-29 (excerpt) / St. Thomas Aquinas -- 13. The spiritual canticle: songs between the soul and the bridegroom (excerpt) / St. John of the Cross -- 14. Freedom for community / Karl Barth -- 15. The Epistle to the Romans (excerpt) / Karl Barth -- PART IV: CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHICAL RESOURCES: 16. Sexual perversion / Thomas Nagel -- 17. Moral abominations / Jeffrey Stout -- PART V: NUPTIAL HERMENEUTICS, OR WHAT MARRIAGE MEANS: 18. The crisis of an ethic without desire / Sebastian Moore -- 19. The original unity of man and woman: catechesis on the Book of Genesis (excerpt) / Pope John Paul II -- 20. The sacrament of love: the nuptial mystery in the light of the orthodox tradition (excerpt) / Paul Evdokimov -- 21. Faithfulness / Robert W. Jenson -- 22. The relationship of bodies: a nuptial hermeneutics of same-sex unions / David Matzko McCarthy -- 23. Sanctification, homosexuality, and God's triune life / Eugene F. Rogers, Jr. -- PART VI: CATHOLIC CONTROVERSIES: 24. Letter to the Catholic bishops on the pastoral care of homosexual persons / Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith -- 25. The Pope converts: imagaination, bureaucracy, silence / Mark D. Jordan -- 26. Alone again, naturally: the Catholic Church anad the homosexual / Andrew Sullivan -- 27. Gay friendship: a thought experiment in Catholic moral theology / Stanley Hauerwas -- PART VII: TRINITARIAN RESOURCES: 28. The body's grace / Rowan D. Williams -- 29. Trinitarian friendship: same-gender models of godly love in Richard of St. Victor and Aelred of Rievaulx / Marilyn McCord Adams -- PART VIII: ANTHROPOLOGY AND CHRISTOLOGY: 30. Sanctifying nearness / Thomas Breidenthal -- 31. [Logos and biography] / John Boswell -- 32. [Marriage and idolatry] / Charles Hawes -- PART IX: ECCLESIAL VOICES: 33. Disputed questions: debate and discernment, scripture and the spirit / Luke Timothy Johnson -- 34. Homosexuality in the church: can there be a fruitful theological debate / Oliver O'Donovan -- 35. Theology amidst the stones and dust / James Alison.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
