Eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven : Women, sexuality, and the Catholic Church, Uta Ranke-Heinemann ; translated by Peter Heinegg

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Eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven : Women, sexuality, and the Catholic Church, Uta Ranke-Heinemann ; translated by Peter Heinegg

Link

• https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7349108M
• https://archive.org/details/eunuchsforkingdo00utar

Title remainder

Women, sexuality, and the Catholic Church

Statement of responsibility

Uta Ranke-Heinemann ; translated by Peter Heinegg

Instantiates

• Eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven : Women, sexuality, and the Catholic Church

Publication

• New York, Doubleday, 1990

Note

Translation of: Eunuchen für das Himmelreich

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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volume

Carrier category code

nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

text

Content type code

txt

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Contents

• Introduction: The district court's Jesus -- Non-Christian roots of Christian sexual pessimism -- The ancient taboo against menstrual blood and its Christian consequences -- The New Testament, and how it was misunderstood : the virgin birth, celibacy, and the remarriage of divorced persons -- The church fathers til Augustine -- Family planning in antiquity : infanticide, abortion, contraception -- Augustine -- The evolution of celibacy -- Celibates' fear of women -- The suppression of women by celibates -- Lay people into monks -- Penitentials and punishment tables -- Early scholaticism, part I : marriage of the lascivious and Josephite marriage -- Early scholaticism, part II : Abelard's opposition, a tale of woe -- Coitus reservatus : the recipe for sinless sex
• The thirteenth century : golden age of theology, and peak of misogynistic slander -- Thomas Aquinas : lumne ecclesiae -- The heightened campaign against contraception (unnatural sex) and its legal consequences in the Church, from the middle ages to the present -- Incest -- Spells for impotence, Satanic loves, witches, and changelings -- The Council of Trent and Pope Sixtus the Momentous -- Luther and his influence on Catholic sexual morality -- The Jansenists and Jesuit morality -- Contraception from 1500 to 1750 -- John Paul II and sex for pleasure -- The nineteenth and twentieth centuries : the age of "birth regulation" -- Abortion -- Onanism -- Homosexuality -- The moral theology of the twentieth century -- Notes on mariology

Edition

1st ed.

Extent

1 online resource (viii, 360 pages)

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online

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unmediated

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rdamedia

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n

Record ID

eunuchsforkingdo00utar

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remote

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(OCoLC)762001736