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- Title
By Whose Authority? Sexual Ethics, Postmodernism, and Orthodox Christianity.
- Authors
Ford, Mary S
- Abstract
The traditional Christian teaching is that engaging in sexual activity, whether heterosexual or homosexual, outside the marriage of one man and one woman is sinful (as distinct from having thoughts about illicit sexual desire, which need not be sinful as long as they are not meditated and/or acted upon—in the same way that the Church teaches about any "logismoi"). In direct contrast, there are those in the Church who quite recently have begun to insist that the traditional teachings concerning sexual sin need to be changed. In particular, the effort is being made to have the Church accept homosexual behavior as not sinful or problematic in any way—at least not for committed homosexuals, as comparable to committed heterosexuals in a marriage. As we all know, this relatively recent view has been promoted heavily in the media and popular culture, and even by our national government. As we make our observations, we will particularly focus on traditional Orthodox Christianity as the fullness of the truth and, thus, the source of the true alternative to this "new" outlook that is gripping much of popular Western culture today.
- Subjects
SEXUAL ethics; ORTHODOX Christianity; LUST; SEXUAL intercourse; POPULAR culture
- Publication
Christian Bioethics: Non-ecumenical Studies in Medical Morality, 2020, Vol 26, Issue 3, p298
- ISSN
1380-3603
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/cb/cbaa010