Eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven : women, sexuality, and the Catholic Church


Uta Ranke-Heinemann ; translated by Peter Heinegg
Bok Engelsk
Originaltittel
Omfang
viii, 360 sider
Opplysninger
Introduction: The district court's Jesus -- Non-Christian roots of Christian sexual pessimism -- The ancient taboo against menstrual blood and its Christian consequences -- The New Testament, and how it was misunderstood : the virgin birth, celibacy, and the remarriage of divorced persons -- The church fathers til Augustine -- Family planning in antiquity : infanticide, abortion, contraception -- Augustine -- The evolution of celibacy -- Celibates' fear of women -- The suppression of women by celibates -- Lay people into monks -- Penitentials and punishment tables -- Early scholaticism, part I : marriage of the lascivious and Josephite marriage -- Early scholaticism, part II : Abelard's opposition, a tale of woe -- Coitus reservatus : the recipe for sinless sex. The thirteenth century : golden age of theology, and peak of misogynistic slander -- Thomas Aquinas : lumne ecclesiae -- The heightened campaign against contraception (unnatural sex) and its legal consequences in the Church, from the middle ages to the present -- Incest -- Spells for impotence, Satanic loves, witches, and changelings -- The Council of Trent and Pope Sixtus the Momentous -- Luther and his influence on Catholic sexual morality -- The Jansenists and Jesuit morality -- Contraception from 1500 to 1750 -- John Paul II and sex for pleasure -- The nineteenth and twentieth centuries : the age of "birth regulation" -- Abortion -- Onanism -- Homosexuality -- The moral theology of the twentieth century -- Notes on mariology.. - "In this incisive analysis, Catholic theologian Uta Ranke-Heinemann daringly confronts her Church's manipulation of its ancient doctrine and willful ignorance of the modern world. Using sources ranging from the earliest Church fathers to recent popes, cardinals, and bishops, she examines evidence that the Church has denigrated women and their sexuality by its glorification of Mary's virginity; championed a perverse idea of celibacy by not allowing priests to marry; and damned birth control and unreproductive sex to the extent that, even today, Catholic AIDS patients are forbidden to use condoms. Both fascinating and horrifying in its revelations, but always illuminating, here is a work that needs to be read by anyone questioning the mores of organized religion today."
Emner
Sex - Religious aspects - Catholic Church.
Women in the Catholic Church.
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Dewey
ISBN
0140165002. - 9780140165005

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