Catholic Sexual Ethics Explained: Understanding Church Teaching on Marriage, Chastity, and the Theology of the Body (Catholic Theology for Beginners($11.99Value)

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Over Two Thousand Years of Catholic Wisdom on Human Sexuality Why does the Catholic Church maintain teachings on sexuality that the modern world finds incomprehensible? This meticulously researched historical study traces Catholic sexual ethics from Genesis through the patristic age, medieval scholasticism, and into John Paul II's twentieth-century personalist revolution. This volume presents the unbroken tradition with scholarly precision. Discover the theological foundations behind teachings often reduced to mere prohibitions: the procreative and unitive meanings of marriage, the virtue of chastity, natural law, and the theology of the body. No modern handbook offers this depth of historical context. Seven appendices reference key magisterial documents, and an extensive bibliography reflects years of primary source research. In an age of pornography addiction, gender ideology, and the wreckage of the sexual revolution, this perspective is urgently needed. Catholics preparing for marriage, parents forming children, and seminarians studying moral theology will all find answers grounded in Scripture, natural law, and two millennia of reflection on human sexuality. Serious scholarship, presented clearly.