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Eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven Women, Sexuality, and the Catholic Church
Eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven Women Sexuality and the Catholic Church Author:Uta Ranke-Heinemann Contents: — ~Non-Christian Roots of Christian Sexual Pessimism — ~The Ancient Taboo Against Menstrual Blood and Its Christian Consequences — ~The New Testament, and How It Was Misunderstood: The Virgin Birth, Celibacy, and the Remarriage of Divorced Persons — ~The Church Fathers Till Augustine — ~Family Planning in Antiquity: Infanticide, Abortion,... more » Contraception
~Augustine
~The Evolution of Celibacy
~Celibates' Fear of Women
~The Suppression of Women by Celibates
~Lay People into Monks
~Penitentials and Punishment Tables
~Early Scholaticism, Part I: Marriage of the Lasvicious and Josephite Marriage
~Early Scholaticism, Part II: Aberland's Opposition- A Tale of Woe
~Coitus Reservatus: The Recipe for Sinless Sex
~The Thirteenth Century: Golden Age of Theology- and Peak of Misogynistic Slander
~Thomas Aquinas: Lumen Ecclesiae ("The Light of the Church")
~The Heightened Campaign Against Contraception ("Unnatural Sex") and Its Legal Consequences in the Church, from the Middle Ages to the Present
~Incest
~Spells for Impotence, Satanic Loves, Witches, and Changelings
~The Council of Trent and Pope Sixtus the Momentus
~Luther and His Influence on Catholic Sexual Morality
~The Jansenists and Jesuit Morality
~Contraception from 1500 to 1750
~John Paul II and Sex for Pleasure
~The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: The Age of "Bith Regulation"