Eunuchs for Heaven: The Catholic Church and Sexuality

Front Cover
A. Deutsch, 1990 - Religion - 326 pages

Contents

The Ancient Taboo and its Christian
12
Virgin Birth Celibacy
18
Fathers of the Church before Augustine
35
Infanticide
53
Augustine
62
The Growth of Celibacy
84
Celibatarian Fear of Women
103
The Monasticising of the Laity
118
WitchcraftInduced Impotence Demonic Intercourse Witches Changelings
200
The Council of Trent and Pope Sixtus the Fanatical
214
Luther and His Influence on the Catholic Sexual Ethic
228
The Jansenists and Jesuit Moral Laxity
235
Contraception between 1500 and 1750
240
John Paul II and the Joys of Abstinence
248
The Age of Birth Control
257
Abortion
269

Penitentials and Penitential Tariffs
127
Conjugal Lechery and the Marian
133
Abelards Crime and Punishment
146
Theologys Golden Age Womans
156
Thomas Aquinas the Churchs Misguided Guiding Light
162
The Growing Campaign against Contraception Unnatural
177
Incest
190
Masturbation
281
Homosexuality
290
Moral Theology in the Twentieth Century
294
The Misdirection of Mariology
307
Select Bibliography
315
Index
317
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