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Authentic Human Sexuality: An Integrated Christian Approach

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This book is built on research, so Christian or not you will learn and understand the developing sexuality in today's society! This books takes on topics anywhere from Homosexuality to Sexual Abuse and Marital Sexuality. If you are looking for a book just to understand a little more or for a good research book, this is the one!! This is a good book for parents up to psychologists. A MUST READ!!!

Three and a half stars. This is a good, but not outstanding book on Christian approaches to sexual ethics. It is not heavily dogmatic, and actually reads much more like sociology than theology in most places. It integrates sociological, and psychological findings with their Biblical analysis, which seem fairly mainstream. They try to represent a diversity of opinions, and succeed modestly well enough, I should say. For those in need of a text that seems fairly middle-of-the-road and addressed the issue of Christian responses to the complex topic of human sexuality, this book should serve that purpose well. At some places they hold back too much on their own conclusions, and could have offered more. Students should find it a fair and comprehensive read, however.

The physical quality of the book was very good. I got value for my money in every way. I would recommend this to anyone who has a need to understand human sexuality in general and specifically from a Christian perspective.

June L.

Finally, a text that does not just explore the problem, but also tries to explore the answers. I found this book intriguing.

I loved this book. It primarily approaches the topic from an academic point of view using psychology, sociology and scientific principles-- it reads like a textbook most of the time-- but it also has a solid God-centered foundation. I didn't find it to be particularly preachy on any one topic. Compared to most of the other Christian sex books out there, this book is fantastic, well-rounded, and highly informed.

The chapter on Authentic Sexuality was my favorite and helped me so much; it really answered a lot of questions about sexuality and sexual expression for Christians and how it relates in relationship to God. It also goes into why sexual repression started in the Church and the effects it's had on many Christians, as well as a very in-depth discussion on how inauthentic sexuality affects us all, including abuse and addiction. Overall I found the whole book to be well-written and incredibly useful for my personal application.

It should be noted that this book isn't perfect; there are some minor typos throughout and some of the information felt slightly incomplete to me. I would have liked them to go more in-depth into masturbation; it's touched on in a few places in the book, but ultimately only really devotes one or two pages to it towards the end. It also can be a little tedious-- as I said, it reads like a textbook. But even still, I think all Christians who've grown up with distorted perspectives on sexuality (and that's quite a few of us, sadly) should ready this book.

This book is especially good for parents to understand their child's sexual development!! I also recommend "Naked and Not Ashamed" for those looking to explore a healthy Christian perspective on sexuality.

Great interpretation. It was a book that Christians should read and understand because of the pervision of the gift of lovemaking in our society today.

There are real studies of human sexuality out there. This text is just the same narrow-minded Christian garbage parading as real science--an increasingly common phenomenon in our culture.