Sexual Desire and Love By Eric Fuchs A ground-breaking study of the origins and history of the Christian ethic of sexuality and marriage, from which the author develops his own theological interpretation of a subject usually notorious for its difficulties and ambiguities. ISBN-13: 9780227678763 Specifications: 234x136mm, 294pp, Paperback Price: £12.50 • US$28.50 Publication: July 1979 Order this Title Now

About this Book

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 question: "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 sexuality: its liberating aspects in the fulfilment of human life, the completion of personality, end the expression of humanity's highest ideals.

About the Author

Eric Fuchs, a Swiss Protestant pastor, was Director of the Protestant Study Centre in Geneva. He is Head of the Ethics Department of the Faculty of Theology at the University of Geneva, Switzerland.