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2 vo lun tar y o r c hos en singlehood celibacy post-marital singlehood marital status 1 creative procreative integrative unitive 1 Stanley J. Grenz, Sexual Ethics: An Evangelical Perspective (Louisville: WJKP, 1997), ; Robert Banks and Paul Stevens, eds., The Complete Book of Everyday Christianity: An A to Z Guide to Following Christ in Every Aspect of Life (Downers Grove: IVP, 1997),

3 49 2 Singlehood is a life orientation of humanity accountable to God 5~ Karen Lebacqz, Appropriate Vulnerability: A Sexual Ethic for Singles, in Christian Perspectives on Sexuality and Gender, ed. Adrian Thatcher and Elizabeth Stuart (Leominster: Gracewing, 1996), personal integration 3 David J. Atkinson and David H. Field, eds., New Dictionary of Christian Ethics and Pastoral Theology (Downers Grove: IVP, 1995),

Adrian Thatcher and Elizabeth Stuart (Leominster: Gracewing, 1996), 424 26. personal integration 3 David J.

4 clamp 6 22 complementary compatible 7 4 Bernhard Stoeckle, ed., Concise Dictionary of Christian Ethics (New York: Seabury, 1979), Atkinson and Field, New Dictionary of Christian Ethics and Pastoral Theology, Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics, vol. 3, The Doctrine of Creation (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1961), part 4,

5 Atkinson and Field, New Dictionary of Christian Ethics and Pastoral Theology, 791.

5 Claus Westermann dgn c o r r e s p o n d e n c e counterpart 9 male or female, male and female legitimate form of cohumanity 8 Christopher Wright Claus Westermann, Genesis 1 11: A Commentary, trans. John J. Scullion S. J. (Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1984),

cohumanity 8 Christopher Wright 2003 10 20 9 Claus Westermann, Genesis 1

6 vocation being-inrelation-with-fellow-sexual-humans being-as-subject-in -relation-with-theother Similarly, the man is undoubtedly partner of the single woman,... no less truly as a man in kinship, acquaintance, friendship and vocation than he is in relation to the woman to whom he is specially and individually bound. 11 Ray S. Anderson and Dennis S. Guernsey, On Being Family: A Social Theology of the Family (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1985),

Similarly, the man is undoubtedly partner of the single woman,.

7 53 Singlehood is a life orientation of humanity as male or female, male and female, accountable to God celibate friendship Ben Kimmerling, Celibacy and Intimacy, in Christian Perspectives on Sexuality and Gender, 434.

friendship 13 13 Ben Kimmerling, Celibacy and Intimacy,

8 want need involuntary impetus toward bonding J. McBride, The Self in the Culture of the Therapeutic, unpublished lecture presented at Regent College, Vancouver, Canada, November 1994, p. 1, quoted in Banks and Stevens, The Complete Book of Everyday Christianity, Stanley J. Grenz, Sexual Ethics: An Evangelical Perspective (Louisville: WJKP, 1997), 193.

College, Vancouver, Canada, November 1994, p.

9 55 17 sexual transactions single individual 17 Kimmerling, Celibacy and Intimacy,

10 Jon Davies James Nelson i n c a r n a t i o n a l b o d y theology bodily experience interpretative web of meaning m o r a l ag en ts 19 s o c i a l c o n s t r u ct i o n i s m esse ntiali sm age nt bod ily realities symbolic interactionism Jon Davies, Sex These Days, Sex Those Days: Will It Ever End? in Sex These Days, Sex Those Days: Essays on Theology, Sexuality and Society, ed. Jon Davies and Gerard Loughlin (Sheffield: Sheffield Univ. Press, 1997), James B. Nelson, Body Theology (Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 1992),

o c i a l c o n s t r u ct i o n i s m esse ntiali sm age nt bod ily realities symbolic interactionism 20 18 Jon Davies, Sex These Days, Sex

11 57 intrinsic meaning nature character core reality d ri v es 21 relationalism e m bo d i me n t b e in g ma d e flesh God s Christic presence

12 Davies, Sex These Days, Sex Those Days, Tony Anatrella, Le sexe oublié (Flammarion, 1997)

14 agape erotic theology Linda Woodhead, Sex in a Wider Context, in Sex These Days, Sex Those Day, A B A B 29 Woodhead, Sex in a Wider Context, 104.

15 61 Carter Heyward ecstatic being-foroneself 30 Carter Heyward, Touching Our Strength: The Erotic as Power and the Love of God (San Francisco: Harper Row, 1989), 33, quoted in Woodhead, Sex in a Wider Context, Woodhead, Sex in a Wider Context,

of God (San Francisco: Harper Row, 1989), 33, quoted in Woodhead,

16 Rita Nakashima Brock fe mi ni ne E ro s e ro ti c power 32 aggres sion lust ide al beauty 33 implication 32 Rita Nakashima Brock, Journeys by Heart: A Christology of Erotic Power (New York: Crossroad, 1988),

17 63 or to be loyal to a particular image of deity 34 ontic inclusivity most inclusive principle of human existence a f undame ntally ultim ate reality

18 being-in-relation-with-oppositesex A B A A A B

19 65 Singleness is a life orientation of humanity as male or female, male and female in total fellowship except for sexual union, and is accountable to God Frederick Buechner half-conscious

20 personalism J. Dominion quality of relationship depersonalized Balswick and Balswick, Sexual Intimacy and Singleness, , quoted in Frederick Buechner, Listen to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner (San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1992), E. David Cook, Sexual Ethics, in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Modern Christian Thought, ed. Alister E. McGrath (Oxford: Blackwell, 1993),

119 20, quoted in Frederick Buechner, Listen to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner (San

21 67 Karen Lebacqz vulnerability ero s 39 seduction p r i n c i p l e o f proportionality 39 Lebacqz, Appropriate Vulnerability,

22 openness gay and lesbian union United Church of Christ

23 69 minima Stanley Hauerwas Stanley Hauerwas, A Community of Character: Toward a Constructive Christian Social Ethic (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame, 1981), 181, quoted in Lebacqz, Appropriate Vulnerability, 426. [G]enuine love is so capable of destruction that we need a structure to sustain us through the pain and the joy of it. 42 Balswick and Balswick, Sexual Intimacy and Singleness,

24 s e x object proving oneself A B A B A B B A

25 71 nonsexual needs 43 reductionism Douglas E. P. Rosenau, Sexuality and the Single Person, in Christian Perspectives on Sexuality and Gender, Stanley Hauerwas, How Marriage Is a Subversive Act, in After Christendom? How the Church Is to Behave if Freedom, Justice, and a Christian Nation Are Bad Ideas (Nashville: Abingdon, 1991),

26 soul-searching healthy sexuality Anna Marie Feltner, Singleness as a Christian Life-style, III, RevExp 74, no. 1 (1977):

27 73 S i n g l e h o o d i s a l i f e orientation of humanity as male or female, male and female in total fellowship except for sexual union, and is accountable to God, finding fulfillment within the ecclesial community a narrative of service

28 Hauerwas, How Marriage Is a Subversive Act, D. J. Burke, Singleness as a Christian Life-Style, I, RevExp 74, no. 1 (1977):

29 75 s u r r o g a t e family Nell Magee, Singleness as a Christian Life-Style, II, RevExp 74, no. 1 (1977):

30 virginity chastity genital sex Sally Cline passionate celibacy s e x u a l singlehood 52 Feltner, Singleness as a Christian Life-style, III, Sally Cline, Women, Celibacy and Passion (London: Andr Deutsch, 1993), 21, quoted in Janette Gray, Celibacy These Days, in Sex These Days, Sex Those Days,

31 77 humanhood 53 expr ession of bo dily desires 53 Gray, Celibacy These Days,

32 sign of hope

33 79 quality

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