SEXUAL ETHICS BIBLIOGRAPHY - University of San Francisco

Miscellaneous Sexual Ethics
. "Human Sexuality." In Moral Theology: Challenges for the Future. Essays in Honor of
Richard A. McCormick, S.J., 192-212. Edited by Charles E. Curran. New York: Paulist
Press, 1990.
Basically details Richard McCormick's contribution to the understanding of sexual ethics.
. "Is Catholic Ethics Biblical The Example of Sex and Gender." Warren Lecture Series in
Catholic Studies 20 (1992).
Using the example of sexual ethics, Cahill gives an overview of the traditional approaches
of Roman Catholic moral theology, contrasts these with various Protestant usages of
Scripture in ethics, and then concludes by outlining a revised approach to sexuality and
gender issues which would be more sensitive to the creative use of the Bible.
Lecture presented at the University of Tulsa on 15 March 1992.
. "Sex and Gender: Catholic Teaching and the Signs of Our Times." Milltown Studies 34
(1994): 31-52.
Discusses how Roman Catholic sexual ethics has, and has not, engaged the modern world
with its teaching. Cahill delineates changes already made, and suggests further developments
and ramifications which should flow from these changes, especially in more nuanced
understanding of what constitutes a woman's proper gender-based roles.
. "Sex and Gender: The Universal Catechism's Presentation." America 3 March 1989: 197-
200;217.
Balanced critique of the first draft of the Universal Catechism's treatment of the issues
relating to sexual ethics.
. Sex, Gender and Christian Ethics. New Studies in Christian Ethics. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1996.
Brings together much of Cahill’s recent work on sexual ethics from a feminist perspective.
The author addresses the ethics of sexuality, marriage, parenthood and family from a feminist
standpoint. She wants to reaffirm the traditional unity of sex, love and parenthood as a
guiding framework, not as an absolute norm. She also develops the significance of New
Testament models of community and of moral formation, to argue that the human values
associated with sex and family should be embodied in a context of concern for society's poor
and marginalized.
Reviewed by Christine Gudorf in Theological Studies 58 (1997): 385-387
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