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Tables of Contents for Humanae Vitae
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
Beginnings of the Debate
1
35
A Brief History of the Church's Condemnation of Contraception
2
5
First Stirrings of Dissent
7
4
Papal Commission
11
9
The Minority Report and Natural Law
20
3
The Majority Rebuttal and Natural Law
23
7
The Final Report, The Schema
30
6
Christian Marriage
36
32
Christian Marriage
37
5
Marriage and Procreation
42
12
Conjugal Love and Personalist Values
54
3
Personalist Values of Marriage
57
4
Gaudium et Spes
61
7
Humanae Vitae: Preliminary Philosophical Considerations
68
30
Natural Law
69
4
The Purpose of the Sexual Organs
73
10
Contraception: An Intrinsic Evil
83
2
Unnatural Acts
85
1
Contraception is Artificial
86
1
The Physiological Argument against Contraception
87
2
The Principle of Totality
89
4
The Principle of Tolerating the Lesser Evil
93
3
The Principle of Double Effect
96
2
Natural Law Arguments against Contraception
98
31
The ``Intrinsic Worth of Human Life'' Argument against Contraception
99
3
The ``Special Act of Creation'' Argument
102
3
The ``Contraception is Contralife'' Argument
105
2
The ``Violation of the Unitive Meaning of the Conjugal Act'' Argument
107
11
The Difference between Contraception and Natural Family Planning
118
11
Some Theological Considerations
129
32
Scriptural Foundations for the Teaching of Humanae Vitae
129
4
Scriptural Foundations for Specific Natural Law Arguments
133
3
The Concept of Munus
136
4
The Interiority of Munus
140
5
An Application of Munus to Humanae Vitae
145
3
Humanae Vitae and Conscience
148
7
The Infallibility of Humanae Vitae
155
6
The Aftermath of Humanae Vitae and the ``Revision'' of Natural Law
161
33
Pope Paul VI and Humanae Vitae
164
3
Dissident Theological Response
167
2
Nature and Grace
169
4
A Monolithic System of Natural Law
173
3
Physicalism
176
3
A Classicist View of Nature versus Historical Consciousness
179
3
Evolutionary Historical Consciousness
182
8
Current Views of Curran and Haering
190
4
Premoral Evil and Other Variations on a Theme
194
36
The Revisionist Position
199
5
Are Exceptionless Norms and Tautologies?
204
3
Exceptionless Norms and Circumstances
207
4
The Principle of Double Effect
211
4
Aquinas's Analysis of Moral Action
215
6
A Comparison with the Revisionists
221
9
Self-Giving and Self-Mastery: John Paul II's Interpretation of Humanae Vitae
230
36
Self-Mastery
232
6
The Objective Criteria for the Wrongness of Contraception
238
5
The ``Original'' Condition of Man
243
7
The Gift of Self
250
8
Criticism of the Views of John Paul II
258
2
John Paul II's Continual Reaffirmation of Humanae Vitae
260
6
Afterword
266
3
Appendices
269
102
1. Translation of Humanae Vitae
269
27
2. Commentary on Humanae Vitae, with Summary of Footnote Citations
296
41
3. The Papal Interventions
337
3
4. A Critique of the Work of Germain Grisez, Joseph Boyle, John Finnis, and William May
340
31
Notes
371
36
Bibliography
407
14
Index
421
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