Posted on 04/25/2023 11:54:24 AM PDT by Gillibrand1
Liberal societies uphold the principle of sexual self-determination - in contrast to traditional church sexual morality. The Church could learn something from this, says moral theologian Stephan Goertz - without that meaning relativism.
Stephan Goertz, a moral theologian from Mainz, believes it is necessary for the Church to commit itself to the principle of sexual self-determination. Behind the consensus principle there is far more ethical appreciation of the staff than behind the traditional nature principle of Catholic sexual ethics, the theologian writes in the current "Herder-Korrespondenz" (May issue). The Church could learn a lot from the moral sensitivity of liberal societies, which should not be relativised as mere majority opinion, Goertz says. The humanisation of sexuality associated with the concept of self-determination should not be concealed
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Isn’t it more important for the Church to promote Biblical teachings?
Howz about me self-determining that I have the right to take a bodacious Obama on the liberal of my choice? Izzat OK?
That would be the Church of WazzHappeningNow
Led by a processional group singing “It’s Your Thing, Do What You Wanna Do, I Can’t Tell You, Who to Sock It To..”
I have a better idea: Submit to the will and teaching of your Creator.
How can man be so arrogant??????
Yes, it is!
You can thank the influence of satan for that.
Or the church could rededicate themselves to the teachings of God Almighty!
Germans ... why is it always Germans?
This creep would seem to be more of an IMMORAL theologian.
Oh yeah, self first, that’s what church is all about. Why even have a church? Oh, I see...money and perks.
I refer you to
Genesis 3:
4 And the serpent said to the woman: No, you shall not die the death. 5 For God doth know that in what day soever you shall eat thereof, your eyes shall be opened: and you shall be as Gods, knowing good and evil.
Emphasis mine. People who believe the Serpent's temptation can be incredibly arrogant. They think themselves to be "gods".
Nah ... that's crazy talk! What are you ... some kind of "rigid" "traditionalist"?
“...a moral theologian from Mainz...”
The author keeps mentioning the word moral. I don’t think the word means what he thinks it means.
A question for the homosexual priest: Sodomy, moral theologian. What word does not belong and why?
There was a time when most understood our reasoning came from our Creator. Once that was rejected, man made himself the “creator” and, consequently, became utterly irrational. There we see the chaos of today.
Exactly! And “male and female He created them.”
Romans 1
And don’t let us to try to figure what they are if they don’t know themselves.
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