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- ISBN: 9780818913303 | 0818913304
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 2/1/2011
Msgr. Livio Melina received his PhD from the University of Padova and his STD from the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family at the Lateran University in Rome where he currently serves as President and Visiting Professor. In addition to numerous articles, he has written, co-authored and edited numerous books including, in English, Sharing in Christ's Virtues: For a Renewal of Moral Theology in Light of Veritatis Splendor with William E. May (Catholic University of America Press), The Way of Love: Reflections on Pope Benedict XVI's Encyclical Deus Caritas Est with Carl A. Anderson (Ignatius Press), and The Epiphany of Love: Toward a Theological Understanding of Christian Action (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing).
Foreword | p. xiii |
Introduction | p. xvii |
The Language of Love and the Culture of the Family | p. xvii |
Abbreviations of Magisterial Documents | p. xxv |
Building a Culture of the Family | |
The Family: A Small Domestic Church, the Dwelling Place of Christian Moral Action | p. 3 |
Introduction: The Task of Building a "Culture of the Family" | p. 3 |
The Crisis of the Homeless Subject, Incapable of Building Love a Home | p. 6 |
The Dimensions of the Crisis of the Moral Subject: Faithfulness and Parenthood | p. 7 |
Paths for Rebuilding the Moral Subject | p. 10 |
Being a Spouse: Rediscovering the Capacity for the Gift of Self. | p. 14 |
Recognizing Ourselves as Children: The Memory of the Original Gift | p. 16 |
Becoming Fathers and Mothers: Finding Hope for the Future | p. 18 |
Conclusion: A Home for Hope and an Open Challenge | p. 19 |
Forgiveness that Regenerates the Person and the Couple | p. 23 |
The Banalization of Forgiveness and the Dimensions of the Offense | p. 23 |
A New Beginning: A Word that Is not Human | p. 28 |
Forgiveness that Regenerates | p. 30 |
Regeneration and Reconciliation in Couples | p. 35 |
The Family and the Media | p. 41 |
Information and Wisdom: In Search of a Criterion | p. 41 |
An Unequal Challenge? | p. 44 |
A Leadership to be Re-Gained | p. 47 |
Conclusion: Rediscovering the Truth in the Language of Love | p. 50 |
The Language of Love | |
Emotional Illiteracy and the Culture of Love | p. 53 |
Emotional Illiteracy and the Anti-Culture of Autonomy: "Liquidating" the Family | p. 55 |
Toward a Culture of Love | p. 61 |
Conclusion | p. 70 |
"Male and Female He Created Them": The Theology of the Body and Sexual Difference | p. 73 |
The Body: The "Sacrament" of the Person | p. 75 |
Sexual Difference and the Gift of the Body | p. 80 |
The Redemption of Human Love in Christ | p. 85 |
Conclusion: The Outline of a Christian Sexual Ethics | p. 92 |
The Personalist Meaning of Human Sexuality and the Challenges of Anti-Personalist Ideology | p. 95 |
The Heart of the Moral Teaching of Familiaris Consortio | p. 96 |
The Current Challenges of the Anti-Personalist Ideology: The Gender Question | p. 101 |
A New Theological Approach: The "Nuptial Mystery" | p. 104 |
The Ethical Dimensions of the Nuptial Mystery | |
Living the Unity | p. 114 |
Chastity as the Virtue of True Love | p. 115 |
Human Sexuality and the Person's Need for Integration | p. 116 |
The Experience of the Fragmentation of the Person | p. 120 |
The Virtue of Chastity as the Integration of the Person and the Possibility of a True Relationship | p. 121 |
Aspects of Chastity | p. 122 |
Chastity and Charity | p. 124 |
The Pastoral Care of Families in Irregular S ituations | p. 127 |
The Difficulties and Temptations of Pastoral Care in the Face of Irregular Family Situations | p. 127 |
The Fundamental Pastoral Principle: Living the Solicitude of Christ the Good Shepherd | p. 128 |
Clear Principles of Reference | p. 131 |
Nearness, Solidarity, and Action | p. 132 |
The Specific Problem of Separation | p. 133 |
Divorced Persons Who Have Not Remarried | p. 135 |
Divorced Persons Who Have Remarried | p. 136 |
The "Internal Forum" and Conscience | p. 138 |
Persons Who Are Married Only Civilly | p. 139 |
Those Living Together Outside of Marriage | p. 140 |
Conclusion: "Loving Human Love"in Its Fragility | p. 141 |
Respecting the Difference | p. 142 |
Moral Criteria for Evaluating Homosexuality | p. 143 |
Homosexual Acts | p. 144 |
The Homosexual Tendency and Condition | p. 147 |
The "Gay" Culture | p. 149 |
Homosexual Inclination as an "Objective Disorder": Reflections of Theological Anthropology | p. 151 |
Homosexual Inclination as "Objectively Disordered" | p. 152 |
The Meaning of the Expression "Objective Disorder" | p. 154 |
The Order of Human Sexuality in the Wise Design of God | p. 156 |
Homosexuality as a Disorder: The Theological Dimension | p. 158 |
Conclusion: The Discernment of Spirits | p. 160 |
A Generous Responsibility for Fruitfulness | p. 162 |
Procreative Responsibility in the Catholic Vision | p. 163 |
The Theological Foundation | p. 164 |
The Ethical Principle | p. 168 |
The Virtue of Chastity and Ethical Norms | p. 177 |
Responsible Parenthood - Natural Fertility Regulation and the Respect for the Language of Love | p. 183 |
The Concept of "Responsible Procreation" | p. 184 |
The Demands and Values Implied by the Choice of Natural Fertility Regulation | p. 186 |
By Way of Farewell: "Family, what do you say about yourself?" | p. 197 |
Asking the Family | p. 197 |
The Sources | p. 198 |
The Riverbed | p. 200 |
The Fruits | p. 201 |
Lights | p. 203 |
Bibliography | p. 205 |
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