Sex and the Marriage Covenant

A Basis for Morality

By: John Kippley

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Product Code: SMCP
Format: Paperback
ISBN/UPC: 9780898709735
Length: 1.1
Size (HxW): 8.9 x 6
Pages: 432
Availability: In stock
Publication date: September 23, 2005
Weight: 21 oz
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Catholic Living > Marriage and Relationships
Current Issues > Abortion-Contraception
Philosophy-Theology > Morality
Occasions > Marriage

The thesis of this book is that God intends that sexual intercourse should be at least implicitly a renewal of the marriage covenant. From this it follows that the marriage covenant provides the criterion to evaluate the morality of every sexual act. Thus the title, Sex and the Marriage Covenant, is an appropriate description of the book's contents. Marriage comes into being by a couple unreservedly entering God's covenant of marriage; contraceptive intercourse contradicts the very essence of the marriage covenant. From these considerations, Kippley developed the covenant theology of sexuality described in this book.

John Kippley

John F. Kippley has been active in the family planning movement since 1968 and co-authored The Art of Natural Family Planning with his wife, Sheila.

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“I should say that my wife and I, while still Protestants, found the first edition of this work to be so luminous and compelling as to help change our minds on the matter of contraception.”
Scott Hahn, Author, Rome Sweet Home

"A veritable mine of information, Sex and the Marriage Covenant is must reading for anyone concerned with marriage, sexuality, and the family."
William E. May, Author, Marriage: The Rock on Which the Family is Built