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Document Details : Title: Lost in Transition? Subtitle: Towards a Renewed Person-Oriented Sexual Ethics Author(s): POLGAR, Nenad Journal: Louvain Studies Volume: 47 Issue: 3 Date: 2024 Pages: 292-302 DOI: 10.2143/LS.47.3.3295269 Abstract : This inaugural lecture begins with an observation that Catholic sexual ethics has been in the grips of anxiety about how to address sexuality in modernity. In order to develop or continue developing a credible rational theological discourse on sexuality in modernity, the author draws attention back to the Second Vatican Council’s pastoral constitution Gaudium et spes and the person-oriented approach to sexuality that he detects in this document. Although, admittedly, person-oriented approaches to sexuality have been met with a substantial resistance in the postconciliar period, the author makes the case that there are convincing reasons why that legacy of the Council ought to be continued and preferred over and above alternatives, as well as how that might be done by addressing what he calls 'residual methodological doubts'. |
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