Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-275) and indexes.

Red hats : Catholic sexual ethics in the face of church authority / Jon Nilson -- White coats : boundary disputes between scientific and religious authority / Anne E. Figert -- What's all the fuss about? The conflict between science and religion over sexual diversity / Fred Kniss -- Medieval attitudes toward Philosophia Naturalis in relation to Scientia Moralis / Francis J. Catania -- Patriarchy, purity, and procreativity : developments in Catholic teachings on human sexuality and gender / Patricia Beattie Jung -- Evolutionary biology and sexual diversity / Joan Roughgarden -- The evolution of sex / Terry Grande and Joel Brown, with Robin Colburn -- Interpreting the theology of creation : binary gender in Catholic thought / John McCarthy -- "Passing" and identity : a literary perspective on gender and sexual diversity / Pamela L. Caughie -- Monogamy and sexual diversity in primates : can evolutionary biology contribute to Christian sexual ethics? / James Calcagno -- "In God's image" and "male and female" : how a little punctuation might have helped / Robert Di Vito -- Social selection and sexual diversity : implications for Chrisitan ethics / Stephen J. Pope -- The triumph of diversity : Hopkins's "Pied Beauty" / Frank Fennell -- Christ as bride : toward a Christology of diversity / Susan A. Ross -- Gender in heaven : the story of the Ethiopian eunuch in light evolutionary biology / Patricia Beattie Jung and Joan Roughgarden -- Conclusion : descriptive and normative ways of understanding human nature / Aana Marie Vigen.