Embodiment: An Approach to Sexuality and Christian TheologyAugsburg Publishing House, 1978 - 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? |
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Foreword by Norman Pittenger сл | 5 |
The Church as Sexual Community | 236 |
Epilog | 272 |
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