Theological Reflections on Contraception
Theological Reflections on Contraception

Summary/Abstract: The contraception, as method of limitation giving birth to children, it is a complex theme which hasn’t received unitary answers during Christian history. The Fathers who unilaterally pronounced themselves against contraception were right, at least regarding the following two aspects: first, as response to the pagan philosophical and religious mentality of the époque they lived and activated in, mentality that was by excellence against procreation, and then, for the procreation is mentioned as an inherent dimension of the man’s creation and of his sexual capacity. The Fathers of the Church who nuanced the purpose of the marital sexuality, by not strictly subordinating it to the giving birth of children, they didn’t ignore either the principles expressed by their forerunners, but they understood, on one hand, the weaknesses of the post-Adam man (of the fallen nature) and, on the other hand, they highlighted that the marital sexuality belongs to the person (to the love, to the relation) and, consequently, it can in liberty assume the primary determinisms of the nature, even if / when it is expresses through the passionate tendencies of the nature.

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