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The Cities and Sex: Chastity and Sexuality as Rival Political Forms

The Cities and Sex: Chastity and Sexuality as Rival Political Forms

Paulus, Benjamin
Levering, Matthew
Rowland, Tracey

Hardcover

Series: T&t Clark Studies in Ressourcement Catholic Theology and Culture

Religion General

PREORDER - Expected ship date November 12, 2026

ISBN10: 0567728269
ISBN13: 9780567728265
Publisher: T&T Clark
Published: Nov 12 2026
Pages: 192
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book is a scholarly intervention in the debates within the Church around the question of sexuality. It proposes that hot-button issues such as contraception, gay marriage, and the moral status of reproductive technologies are not merely debates about what we should or should not do in the privacy of our own homes; rather, these are matters with inevitable implications for the common good.

Using St. Augustine's two cities as a frame, the book explores the concepts of 'sexuality' and chastity. It argues that sexuality discourse is a carrier for two key modern impulses: self-invention and the desire for intimacy. Moreover, by associating self-invention with human dignity, sexuality discourse helps create a political society devoted to the promotion of personal autonomy as its end- a politics of the earthly city. Chastity, by contrast, assumes that one must order his passions to fully realize his human nature. Since man is a political animal, chastity is consonant with a politics of the common good and a necessary condition of a true communion of persons- the social life of the City of God.

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