Theology in Interdisciplinary Research About Human Sexuality: Introductory Reflections

The development of modern sciences and specifically the subject of their research makes it necessary to conduct interdisciplinary research and dialogue between individual sciences. This applies especially to the complex and multi-dimensional issue of the phenomenon of sexuality. Since it concerns humans beings, their life, and their interpersonal relations, research in this area cannot be limited to sexology, medicine, psychology and the social sciences, but must also take into account the results of research in the field of anthropology, as well as philosophy and theology, the subject of which is the understanding of humankind, as well as the search for answers to the question about the meaning and significance of human life in the temporal dimension and in relation to God. This article contains reflections on the need for theology within the framework of interdisciplinary research on human sexuality. Against the background of the justification for the necessity to conduct research on the phenomenon of sexuality in various sciences, the author justifies the need for a theological discourse on this topic. Next, this issue is explained on the basis of exemplary reductionist approaches that attempt to explain the complexity of the phenomenon of sexuality from a single research perspective. Reflections lead to the conclusion about a holistic vision of sexuality, which is possible on the basis of interdisciplinary discourse and research on sexuality, in which its polyvalent dimension is taken into account.