Brief, Liberal, Catholic Defense of Abortion
"The two scholars offer [this volume] not as 'free-floating theists' but as Catholics retrieving a complex history of debate on the subject. . . . In tracing the changing Catholic views, the scholars defend the moral permissibility of abortion in the first trimester and offer a sexual ethic that focuses on issues of respect and agapic love rather than procreation, marriage, or even heterosexuality."--Nina C. Ayoub, Note Bene, The Chronicle of Higher Education
Embracing and evaluating the complexities of historical Catholic positions on abortion Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- University of Illinois Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 168
- ISBN
- 9780252073977
- Utgivelsesår
- 2006
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
Anmeldelser
"The two scholars offer [this volume] not as 'free-floating theists' but as Catholics retrieving a complex history of debate on the subject. . . . In tracing the changing Catholic views, the scholars defend the moral permissibility of abortion in the first trimester and offer a sexual ethic that focuses on issues of respect and agapic love rather than procreation, marriage, or even heterosexuality."--Nina C. Ayoub, Note Bene, The Chronicle of Higher Education
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"Calmly reasoned, carefully explained, and terribly important." --Garry Wills, Chicago Sun-Times
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"A model of reasoned discourse about an inflammatory issue. I cannot think of a Catholic--or any thoughtful person--who would not benefit from it."
-- Anthony Padovano, Conscience
"This well-argued and well-researched book makes an excellent contribution to the debate on abortion. . . . [The authors] bring new light to the history of Catholic thought and a fresh perspective that will benefit participants on all sides of the abortion controversy."--Choice
"Dan Dombrowski and Robert Deltete's excellent book on a liberal Catholic defense of abortion definitively shows that the current teachings of the Roman Catholic Church--that all abortion is murder from the first moment of conception--is not in accord with Catholic tradition over more than eighteen centuries. A careful study of the Catholic tradition of such major theologians as Thomas Aquinas, in the context of modern embryology, in fact, supports the pro-choice position in the first two trimesters. The authors argue that, at the very least, the morality of abortion in the early months should be an open and not a closed question for Catholics."--Rosemary Radford Ruether, Georgia Harkness Professor of Applied Theology, Northwestern University and author of Women and Redemption: A Theological History and Sexism and God-Talk: A Theological History
"Helpful for the ways in which it nuances the church's response to abortion, illuminating how the grounds of its opposition have changed from perversity to ontology. . . . A critical retrieval of Augustine and Aquinas supports their position that fetuses are not necessarily persons."--Donna M. McKenzie, Religious Studies Review
"A valuable book, which argues that a pro-choice position on early abortion is at least as consistent with the Roman Catholic tradition as the strict anti-abortion stance of contemporary Church leaders."--Ethics