Sexual and family ethics in question, part one: A critique of centralising legalism
Thiel, Marie-Jo
Sexual and family ethics in question, part one: A critique of centralising legalism - 2020.
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Why is Catholic sexual morality so often a source of “incomprehension and alienation from the Church” ( Christus vivit 39)? This article hypothesises that a centralising ecclesiology added to a strongly universalist perspective has contributed to “a conjunction of rigorism and tutiorism” in the field of sexual and family ethics as well as to a particular inflexibility in the interpretation of norms. Those who do not follow the official teaching have thus felt excluded and have ultimately tended to leave the Church. Do we not now see that this perspective is under challenge? This point will be developed further in RETM 305.
Sexual and family ethics in question, part one: A critique of centralising legalism - 2020.
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Why is Catholic sexual morality so often a source of “incomprehension and alienation from the Church” ( Christus vivit 39)? This article hypothesises that a centralising ecclesiology added to a strongly universalist perspective has contributed to “a conjunction of rigorism and tutiorism” in the field of sexual and family ethics as well as to a particular inflexibility in the interpretation of norms. Those who do not follow the official teaching have thus felt excluded and have ultimately tended to leave the Church. Do we not now see that this perspective is under challenge? This point will be developed further in RETM 305.
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