Thinking about sex
By: Adrian Thatcher
Series: Thinking about
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 103
ISBN-13: 9781506400709
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Sex; Liberalism (Religion); Christianity
Description: “Very many people, including not a few Christians, do not find the Christian tradition very helpful for making sense of sex. It is not that people willfully forsake a demanding sexual ethic for a more easygoing worldly one. It is that they often cannot see the point of its &#x2018;demandingness.&#x2019;” Thus begins author Adrian Thatcher&#x2019;s project of laying out an unashamedly and wholeheartedly liberal approach to sex and sexuality. Fully aware that for some the word liberal has taken on negative connotations, Thatcher builds on a liberalism in which individuals are encouraged to make up their minds about what faith is and how they are to apply it to their own lives, recognizing that within the boundaries of faith there is much scope for variety in individual belief and practice. Using familiar theological ideas, biblical passages, and Christian doctrines, Thatcher sets out to place them intelligibly in a twenty-first-century context. Subjects covered include desire, bodies, sexual difference, marriage, spirituality, and sexualities. (Publisher).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 102-103).
Table of contents: title: Making sense of the sources; title: Making sense of desire : from repression to expression; title: Making sense of bodies : from 'sinful bodies' to the body of Christ; title: Making sense of sexual difference : from difference to indifference; title: Making sense of homosexuality : from disgust to delight; title: Making sense of marriage : from patriarchy to partnership; title: Making sense of Spirit : from crucifixion to inspiration.