Embodiment: An Approach to Sexuality and Christian TheologyFortress Press - 303 pages Few would doubt that this is a time of transition in our understanding of human sexuality. The confusion about sexual morals and mores is the more obvious evidence of this. But there is something else. For too long the bulk of Christian reflection about sexuality has asked an essentially one-directional question: what does Christian faith have to say about our lives as sexual beings? |
Contents
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Sexual Alienation The Dualistic Nemesis | 37 |
Sexual Salvation Grace and the Resurrection of the Body | 70 |
Love and Sexual Ethics | 104 |
The Meanings of Marriage and Fidelity | 130 |
The Morality of Sexual Variations | 152 |
Gayness and Homosexuality Issues for the Church | 180 |
The Sexually Disenfranchised | 211 |
The Church as Sexual Community | 236 |
Epilog | 272 |
Notes | 275 |
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Page 22 - We cannot possibly interpret rituals concerning excreta, breast milk, saliva and the rest unless we are prepared to see in the body a symbol of society, and to see the powers and dangers credited to social structure reproduced in small on the human body.