Title: Human Sexuality:  An All-Embracing Gift  Author: Gerald D. Coleman, S.S.  ISBN: 0-8189-0642-X  Paperback: xxii + 441 pp.  Price: $18.95 + shipping  To Order call:  1 800-343-ALBA (2522)  Please have your Master, Visa  or Master card ready. To order online click here.

This work is an extraordinarily comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of human sexuality as an all-embracing, all-pervasive gift of God to each and every human being. A scholarly text, it deals with sexuality from the point of view of modern science, the Word of God and the teachings of the Church. Covering the biological, psychological, moral and aesthetical aspects of sexuality, it treats such matters as respect for human life, the physiology of reproduction, the question of birth regulation, homosexuality, HIV/AIDS and the Church. Throughout, the author never loses sight of the Gospel value of enduring, self-giving, other-serving love which God's gift of sexuality promotes and brings to fruition.

 

Gerald D. Coleman, S.S., the President and Rector of St. Patrick's Seminary in Menlo Park, California is the author of Divorce and Remarriage in the Catholic Church (Paulist Press, 1988) along with several highly acclaimed articles on moral and spiritual matters related to marriage and sexuality in various periodicals.  Reviews "Coleman has written a vast, erudite work that examines human sexuality in such a way that today's developments are reflected in traditional values from the Gospels. Throughout these 400-some pages, Coleman gives a praiseworthy view of the new realities, naming the problems, talking about basic assumptions, presenting the Church's teachings, describing current biological, psychological and sociological information about human sexuality, offering pastoral suggestions, while putting all of these into a perspective of faith." --The Book Reader  "Human Sexuality presents extensive historical, scientific, and psychological background information on each topic as well as biblical teaching, the teaching of the magisterium, moral principles, and suggestions for pastoral practice." --Theology Digest   "The author's capacity for synthesis makes this a valuable book for anyone who seeks to deepen his or her personal understanding of these issues or to prepare to teach and discuss them with others." --Brother Romeo J. Bonsaint, S.C. in Brothers  "In Human Sexuality: An All-Embracing Gift, Gerald D. Coleman, S.S., provides a veritable encyclopedia of its topic, but his intent and his effect are positively pastoral for our confused and groping age. There is even good humor in his title, offsetting the grimness of Francis B. Rothluebber's Nobody Owns Me, with its explicit accent on me. -- Review for Religious  Top of Page