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Sunday, October 30, 2011

Because I Said So: The Straw Man of Theological Voluntarism

Posted on 4:22 PM by Unknown

Is the essence of Christian ethics, in the area of sexuality as elsewhere, summed up in the familiar parental phrase "Because I said so?" A Catholic writing in the Stanford Review thinks not.

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