Catholic Sexual Theology and Adolescent Girls: Embodied Flourishing

St. Joseph's College congratulates Dr. Doris Kieser on the launch of her new book; a celebration and presentation will be held on Wednesday, April 22 at 4:00pm in the SJC boardroom.

20 April 2015


Book Launch Presentation

4:00pm
Wednesday, April 22
St. Joseph's College Boardroom
University of Alberta

The historical evolution and contemporary manifestation of sexual theology within the Roman Catholic tradition is deficient of explicit consideration of the developmental aspects of human sexuality. In this book, Dr. Kieser addresses that deficiency by exploring contemporary sexual theology from within a feminist natural law perspective and constructing a sexual theology accounting for adolescent females. In so doing, she also conducts a secondary analysis of relevant existing empirical data pertaining to adolescent female sexuality as a means of better understanding their sexual development, experiences, and interpretations. Finally, she undertakes a synthesis of the discrete discourses of theology and developmental psychology in the construction of an adequate theological sexual ethic. The locus of this synthesis is the concept of human flourishing, sexual flourishing in particular, of persons in relationship with others and with the Divine. She concludes with a discussion of some questions for further study.