Under the Bed of Heaven : Christian Eschatology and Sexual Ethics

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Under the Bed of Heaven : Christian Eschatology and Sexual Ethics

McCarty, Richard W.

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State University of New York Press（2022/07発売）
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製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 248 p.
言語 ENG
商品コード 9781438486260
DDC分類 241.66

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Explores how concepts of sex in heaven can inform Christian sexual ethics in ways that challenge traditional norms and open new possibilities.

Finalist for the 2022 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, Constructive-Reflective Studies presented by the American Academy of Religion

Under the Bed of Heaven is a work of Christian ethics that examines how eschatology might reshape concepts of sexual morality. With the rise of institutional Christianity in the Roman Empire, Christian attitudes about sexual desire and activity were soon controlled by doctrines of virginity and celibacy, or, monogamous marriage for the sake of procreation. These moral theologies aligned with a certain track of Christian eschatology, which imagined the future resurrection of the body, but without any corresponding sexual desires. As a result, traditional Christianity developed a preference for celibacy on earth to match the loss of sexual desire and activity in heaven, making marriage and monogamy temporal goods only.

In recent years, a few scholars of religion have challenged whether this vision of a sexless heaven is valid. However, they have not fully developed a vision of sex in heaven that might function to critique and reform Christian sexual ethics on earth. Richard W. McCarty explores scripture, church teachings, and different models of eschatology to offer a bold new conception of Christian sexual ethics that is inclusive of LGBTQ and heterosexual people, both in and outside of monogamous configurations.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Hiding under the Bed of Heaven

1. Building the Bridge between Christian Ethics and Eschatology

2. Sex in Heaven

3. Christianity's Sexless Heaven

4. New Visions for Sex in Heaven

5. Sexual Metaphors for the Eschatological Life

6. An Eschatological Sexual Ethic, Part 1: The Gifts and Fragilities of Monogamy

7. An Eschatological Ethic, Part 2: The Christian Possibilities of Promiscuity and Celibacy

Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index