God Loves Sex
eBook - ePub

God Loves Sex

An Honest Conversation about Sexual Desire and Holiness

  1. 176 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

God Loves Sex

An Honest Conversation about Sexual Desire and Holiness

About this book

We live in a sexually mad world where God's gift of sex has been distorted through pornography, promiscuity, prostitution, abuse, trafficking, and rape. The church's position on sexual matters has been made clear throughout history: all sexual activity outside the boundaries of Christian marriage is sin. But rarely has the church honestly addressed the true needs of Christians who are struggling with sexual desires they believe to be counter to the Bible. So we hide our struggles and pretend to live above the erotic fray, or else we cozy up to the culture's redefinition of which sins are acceptable. But what does the Bible really say about sexual desire and sexual intimacy?

God Loves Sex offers a truly liberating, godly view of holy sensuality by recovering the clear meaning of the Song of Songs as God-sanctioned eroticism. Then it uses that lens to answer questions posed by a fictional new Christian struggling with expectations of sexual purity. It asks provocative questions, such as What does it mean to be both holy and filled with rich sexual desire? and How can our sexual struggles take us deeper into the purposes of God?

Pairing psychological insight with sound biblical scholarship, Allender and Longman bring it all out into the open, allowing Christians of any age and any marital status to discover sex the way God meant it to be.

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Information

Publisher
Baker Books
Year
2014
eBook ISBN
9781441221087
Topic
Theology & Religion

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Endorsements
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. 1. Song of Songs
  10. 2. Roped In
  11. 3. Before the Bible Study on Desire
  12. 4. The Dance of Desire
  13. 5. After the Bible Study on Desire
  14. 6. Before the Bible Study on Beauty
  15. 7. The Intrigue of Beauty
  16. 8. After the Bible Study on Beauty
  17. 9. The Sad Sexual Tales of My Friend
  18. 10. The Fantasy of Sexual Play
  19. 11. Before the Bible Study on Struggles
  20. 12. The Struggle toward Intimacy (Part 1)
  21. 13. The Struggle toward Intimacy (Part 2)
  22. 14. After the Bible Study on Struggles
  23. 15. Before the Bible Study on Glory
  24. 16. The Glory of Sex
  25. 17. Tears of Laughter
  26. Conclusion
  27. Notes
  28. About the Authors
  29. Back Ads
  30. Back Cover