Review article
Young People and Sexuality. Theological and Moral Approach
Tonči Matulić
; Catholic Faculty of Theology University of Zagreb
Abstract
In his article the author examines several important aspects of pastoral practice by conversing with young people about sexuality from the theological and moral points of view. The article is divided into five sections. In the first section the author emphasizes the place and role of young people in the contemporary society based on the teaching of the Council. In the second section he analyses sexuality within the context of the social progress and the mechanisms connected with it. These have influenced the singling out of sexuality as an individual scientific topic and as an autonomous social phenomenon. In the third section the author throws light upon some negative consequences of the sexual revolution that resulted in the radical emancipation of sexuality in view of other aspects of human life, especially of matrimony, family and reproduction. In this sense he exposed and clarified some sideways, which either degrade human sexuality to a mere object of pleasure, entertainment and consumption, or distort it into a means of manipulation, exploitation and repression. The fourth section provides a comprehensive synthesis of the basic guidelines of sexual education in the family, issued by the existing Church Magisterium, without any special criticism. In the fifth section the author explains and defines some significant (pre)conditions for a more efficient religious teaching, pastoral and catechetical approach to young people when speaking about the human sexuality, having in mind the necessary assistance to parents when it comes to the issues of sexual education. The main emphasis has been put on the methodical and didactic aspects of the problem, although they are closely connected to the theological and moral aspects of the same problem i.e. sexuality.
Keywords
Young people; sexuality; sexual revolution; sexual education; family; Christian evaluation of sexuality
Hrčak ID:
36238
URI
Publication date:
30.4.2009.
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