Rescuing sex from the Christians - Sullivan, Clayton, 1930- (New York : Continuum, 2006)
The first mistake : misunderstanding Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden -- Adam and Eve and the euhemerous fallacy -- Augustine of Hippo -- Billy Graham and the Adam and Eve story -- Roman Catholicism and the Adam and Eve story : a marinade of sin and shame -- The second mistake : the divided self concept -- The divided self concept -- Socrates and the divided self -- Saint Paul and the divided self -- Augustine and the divided self -- By way of recapitulation -- Masturbation and the harm principle -- Homosexuality and the harm principle -- Word definitions and the Sodom story -- Homosexuality : a puzzle -- The Bible and cultural relativism -- An appeal to Jerry Falwell -- An appeal to homosexuals -- Two suggestions -- Fornication, adultery, and the harm principle -- A definition of terms -- The sinfulness of fornication -- Adultery and the harm principle -- Prostitution and the harm principle -- Some concluding remarks.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Sex -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Sexual ethics; Christian ethics; Consequentialism (Ethics)