The issue of homosexuality has a special significance today for Christian sexual ethics. For a variety of reasons discussed in the book, homosexuality is the issue which best measures the universal and evangelical character of any proposed sex-ual ethic that would claim the name Christian. At the same time, ethical proposals about homosexual acts and relation-ships must also meet the criteria established by the theological traditions, take into respectful account what is known about human sexuality from the human sciences, as the biblical and well as pay heed to the teaching of the Church's magisterium. These are the challenges the present book attempts to face and to which it responds.

The first half of the book examines with care both the data from the human sciences and the theological tradition. It also submits to detailed critical analysis the various ethical pro-posals available in contemporary literature in regard to the morality of homosexual acts and relationships. The second half of the book proposes a theological understanding of human sexuality as fraught with vocational significance for a Christian way of life and applies this understanding to the question of the morality of homosexual behavior Chapters on sex and chastity, sex and sin, and on our knowledge of God's Will complete the theological view and the ethical argument.