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

by Eric Fuchs

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 "By what mysterious alchemy did the liberating Gospel of Christ who unconditionally accepted wounded humanity become transformed into moral requirements that were so guilt forming'" Fuch's exhaustive study leads him to develop his own theological interpretation of its liberating aspects in the fulfilment of human life, the completion of personality, end the expression of humanity's highest ideals.

294 pages, Paperback

First published January 7, 1979

Reviews

[Steve Hunt]

French translation. Very well researched and quoted. Thoughtful and insightful.