HARRY A. WALSH, Ed.D.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Celibacy Defined
The Hebrew Tradition
Jesus and Celibacy
Paul on Celibacy
Church Fathers
Celibacy & Political Power
Celibacy & Economic Power
Celibacy & Monastic Power
Celibacy & The Reformation
Trent to Vatican Two
Part 2: CELIBACY AND ABSTINENCE
Celibacy/Abstinence Confusion
Economic Consequences of Dismantling Celibacy
Political Consequences of Dismantling Celibacy
Negative Power Institutionalized
The Influence of Boros and Tillich
Rome Reacts
Incarnational Theology
The Pleasure Problem
Vatican Two: less negative
Moving Away from a Physicalist Approach to Sexual Ethics
Classicist and Historical Worldviews
Peter Abelard & Joan of Arc
"Humanae Vitae" and the Faith of Roman Catholics
The Church and Eros
The Influence of Liberation Theology
D.H. Lawrence
Conclusion