International Journal of Clinical and Medical Education Research(IJCMER)

Saint Monica University, Buea, Cameroon

Publications

• Research Article   
  Reconciling Agency and Tradition: A Critical-Liberative Theological Dismantling of the Contra Naturam and Complementarian Imago Dei Frameworks in Catholic Sexual Ethics
  Author(s): Januarius Asongu*
  
  This article employs Critical-Liberative Theology (CLT) to conduct a systematic deconstruction of the two principal theological frameworks used to exclude same-sex relationships from sacramental recognition in Roman Catholic teaching: the contra naturam (against nature) argument from natural law and the complementarian Imago Dei (Image of God) argument from theological anthropology. Building on the analysis of ecclesial authority and moral diversion in Fiducia Supplicans this study integrates CLT’s threefold method—critical rationality, liberative praxis, and attentive listening to conscience and the sensus fidelium—to demonstrate that these frameworks function not as timeless truths but as historically conditioned hermeneutics that protect institutional power, enforce heteronormativity, and inflict structural violence [1]. Through rigorous philosophical and theologi.. Read More»
  

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