Homosexuality: A New Christian EthicJames Clarke & Co., 1983 - Broj stranica: 56 In the debate about homosexuality one thing that seems clear - on a issue renowned for lack of clarity and controversy - is that two fundamentally incompatible positions continue to held tenaciously. One asserts that homosexual acts are legitimate, the other that they are not. Concentration on the legitimacy of sexual expression rather than on underlying needs has made the debate about homosexuality incapable of resolution. Homosexuality: A New Christian Ethic presents a psychoanalytic interpretation that has shifted the focus of the debate from symptoms to root causes. The crux of Elizabeth Moberly's argument is that 'the homosexual condition involves legitimate developmental needs, the fulfilment of which has been blocked by an underlying ambivalence to members of the same sex'. But while the argument is certainly controversial, it involves a much-needed restatement of the traditional Christian distinction between the homosexual condition and its expression in homosexual activity. |
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ability to relate abnormal adult Agnes Sanford attained bisexual block bypass capacity for same-sex checked child child's attachment Christian Christians and Homosexuality Church and Homosexuality complementarity defensive barrier defensive detachment degree of same-sex disruption Eros Defiled eroticisation essentially forgiveness Francis MacNutt fulfilment of homosexual fulfilment of same-sex fulfilment of unmet Gay Theology gender identity goal healing process heterosexual homosexual acts homosexual condition homosexual needs homosexual relationships homosexual's human sexuality Ibid identificatory process incomplete instances Jim Glennon left unmet legitimate needs lesser degree love-need love-source male homosexual marked maturity Michael Green missing growth need for attachment needs involved negative side normal process opposite sex orphan overt parent-child relationship persisting pray prayer pre-adult process of growth psychological growth psychological needs psychosis reassessment relational deficit reparative drive repression Ruth Carter Stapleton same-sex ambivalence same-sex deficits same-sex identity same-sex love same-sex needs same-sex parent sexual activity sexual expression solution speak transsexualism twofold unmet needs vis-a-vis