From: The Christian Century | Date: March 15, 1995| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1995 The Christian Century Foundation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Reviewed by Jean Porter, associate professor of moral theology at the University of Notre Dame.

OUR SOCIETY is in a crisis over sexuality in part because the churches have been paralyzed by fear of stepping away from the confines of the Christian sexual tradition," Christine Gudorf claims. We have failed to develop an ethic which better accords both with "our scientific and experiential insights into sexuality," and "the central revelations of the gospel." As a result, "the broader society [is left] without effective moral guidance on sexuality at a time when more and more public ...