Sexual Desire and Love : Origins and History of the Christian Ethic of Sexuality and Marriage

In a comprehensive, ground-breaking study of the Christian teaching about sexuality, Eric Fuchs surveys the "taboos of Judaeo-Christian morality." He looks at the ethics of sexuality as they are presented in the Bible, and by early theologians, medieval scholastics, reformers and counter-reformers, and present-day thinkers. Through it all he is concerned to answer the question: "By what mysterious alchemy did the liberating Gospel of Christ who unconditionally accepted wounded humanity become transformed into moral requirements that were so guilt-forming?"