Human Sexuality in a Christian Perspective

This course will examine human sexuality from a range of theological and historical perspectives: Scriptural, doctrinal, sociological, and ethical.  The main lens through which we will look at these categories, however, will be the broader one of “creaturehood”, understood both from a systematic theological perspective, and from historical/ecclesial traditions. Questions of sexual differentiation, desire, procreation, family, and marriage and celibacy will be discussed.  The goal of the course is to provide the student with a broad base from which to discern a consistent pattern of Christian understanding regarding sexuality, within both historical and contemporary diversities, and with this understanding begin to formulate appropriate attitudes towards the Christian Church’s formational vocation with respect to sexuality.