Love And Responsibility

Love And Responsibility
Item Number: 1821	Purchase Information Your Price: $14.95 Select Qty: Availability: In Stock. Can ship within 1-2 Business Days

Large

Product Details
Author: Format: ISBN: H x W: Manufacturer: Date: Pages:	Karol Wojtyla Soft Cover 0-89870-445-6 8" (20.3 cm) x 5 1/4" (13.3 cm) Ignatius Press 1981 319

General Description:

Drawing from his own pastoral experience as a priest and bishop before he became PopeJohn Paul II, Karol Wojtyla has produced a remarkably eloquent and resourceful defense of Catholic tradition in the sphere of family life and sexual morality. He writes in the conviction that science - biology, psychology, sociology - can provide valuable information on particular aspects of relations between the sexes, but that a full understanding can be obtained only by study of the human person as a whole.

Central to his argument is the contrast between the personalistic and the utilitarian views of marriage and of sexual relations. The former views marriage as an interpersonal relationship, in which the well-being and self-realization of each partner are of overriding importance to the other. It is only within this framework that the full purpose of marriage can be realized. The alternative, utilitarian view, according to which a sexual partner is an object for use, holds no possibility of fulfillment and happiness. The author argues that divorce, artificial methods of birth control, adultery (and pre-marital sexual relations), and sexual perversions are all in various ways incompatible with the personalistic view of the sexual self-realization of the human person.

Perhaps the most striking feature of the book is that the author appeals throughout to ordinary, human experience, logically examined. In a substantial section on "sexology and morals," he draws support for his views on the proper gratification of sexual needs, on birth control, and on other matters, from the findings of physiologists and psychologists. His conclusions coincide with the traditional teachings of the Church, which invoke scriptural authority. But the author's approach ensures that non-Christians also can consider his arguments on their own merits.

Other Customers Also Purchased

Mysteries Of Light

30 Favorite Novenas

An Hour With Jesus Vol. I

Browse For Similar Items In

Share This Item

(What are these?) : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :

A Tiber River reviewer hasn't written a review for this book yet.
Sign up as a Tiber River reviewer and see your review here!
(Apart from fame, you can also earn money and free books for writing reviews.)

Reviews

Be The First To Review This Item!