God, Science, Sex, Gender An Interdisciplinary Approach to Christian Ethics

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Establishing basepoints for Dialogue Red hats: catholic sexual Ethics in the face of church authority...23 White coats : Boundary disputes between scientific and religious Authority...32 What`s all the fuss about? the fonflict between science and religion over sexual Diversity........46 Medieval attitudes toward philosophia naturalis in relation to scientia moralis..57 Patriarchy, purity, and procreativity : Developments in Catholic teachings on Human Sexuality and gender ........69 II. Reflecting on Human Sexual Diversity Evolutionary biology and sexual Diversity ...........89 The evolution of Sex ......105 Interpreting the theology of creation : Binary gender in Catholic Thought....123 Passing and identity: A literary perspective on Gender and sexual Diversity.140 Monogamy and sexual Diversity in Primates : can evolutionary biology contribute to christian Sexual Ethics?.........155 In god`s Image and male and female how a little punctuation might have helped ...........167 III. Sexual diversity and christian moral Theology Social Selection and sexual diversity : Implications for christian Ethics....187 The triumph of Diversity : Hopkins`s Pied Beauty ....201 Christ as bride : Toward a christology of Diversity ........211 Gender in Heaven : The story of the ethiopian Eunuch in light of Evolutionary biology........224