One of the most “exciting” topics at the intersection of biology and faith is human sexuality and fertility. After all, man is undeniably a ‘biological’ being, even if he is distinguished from animals by exceptional spiritual qualities such as language, sense of mind, self-consciousness, abstract thinking, a free will that inevitably accompanies the bearing of moral responsibility and the awareness thereof, creative capacity and the predisposition to religiosity. It is therefore philosophically interesting to take a closer look at man’s thinking and actions regarding sexuality and the fertility associated with it, all the more so because at a time when there are very different views on practices.
Our approach aims to relate biological aspects of the subject to theology (the science of God and his self-revelation), through ‘philosophical anthropology’ (how we see man, our view of man). In this way, two extremes are avoided: of a one-sided naturalistic approach, which sees man only as a biological being, like any other, and of a ‘pheidistic’ approach, which has such a high image of man as ‘image of god’, almost an ‘angel’, that physical and biological reality is undervalued. A human being is therefore a biological being, but not ‘slects’ a biological being’. Theology teaches that God does exist and that man as man and woman is created ‘in the image’, that the biological world does not exist ‘just like that’ and that man as a biological being has the special quality of being able to know God’ and that with it also on his happiness, here on earth also in sexuality and reproduction, and then in eternity with God. For believers, sex is not ‘dirty’ but God’s will and a cause for happiness in life; faith is what allows us to live our physicality, our sexuality and fertility to the fullest, namely: according to God’s plan of creation that is a plan of love and wants to make us ‘only’ perfectly happy.
So much for now. Here are already some subpages and posts on this site:
- All blog posts about sexuality and fertility
- Contraceptives (contraception)
- Comic book about natural birth control
- The papal circular ‘Humanae Vitae’
- The theology of the body
- Man and woman He created them
- NFP Netherlands
- NFP Flanders
- NFP International
- Sensiplan
- FertilityCare / NaPro Technology
Questions or comments: send an email to info@biofides.eu
