Human Sexuality in the Catholic Tradition

Kieran Scott is associate professor religion and religious education at Fordham University. He is coeditor of Perspectives on Marriage and has authored several articles and essays for edited collections on related religious education and pastoral themes. Harold Horell is assistant professor of religious education at Fordham University. He has served as general editor for Horizons and Hope: The Future of Religious Education.

This is a marvelous collection of essays, progressive in their attention to the growing edges of tradition and faithful to the roots of the moral wisdom of ages past.

• Part 1 Part I: Foundational Issues of Human SexualityChapter 2 Moving Beyond the Sounds of SilenceChapter 3 Tender Fires: The Spiritual Promise of SexualityChapter 4 A Pastoral ResponseChapter 5 Toward Christian Sexual Maturity: Growing in Wisdom, Age and GraceChapter 6 A Pastoral ResponseChapter 7 A New Moral Discourse on SexualityChapter 8 A Pastoral ResponseChapter 9 Sexuality and Relationships in MinistryChapter 10 A Pastoral ResponsePart 11 Part II: Specific IssuesChapter 12 Engaging the Struggle: John Paul II on Personhood and SexualityChapter 13 A Disembodied "Theology of the Body": John Paul II on Love, Sex and PleasureChapter 14 Graceful Pleasures: Why Sex is Good for Your MarriageChapter 15 The Gift of CelibacyChapter 16 Always Our Children? Young Catholics Consider the Pastoral MessageChapter 17 A Tortured Trio: Sexuality, Adolescents and Moral TheologyChapter 18 Cohabitation: A ReassessmentChapter 19 Sexuality and the Church: Finding Our Way