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Designer Sex (Booklets) [Pamphlet]

Philip Yancey (Author)
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Booklets July 29, 2005
Sex holds a mysterious power over us and our society. While sex can become an idolatrous obsession, it also reflects divine transcendence. Philip Yancey unveils the sacred nature of sex and shows how it was designed to point us not merely toward union with one another, but also with God.

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About the Author

Philip Yancey is editor at large of Christianity Today and cochair of the editorial board for Books and Culture. His books include Reaching for the Invisible God, The Bible Jesus Read, What's So Amazing About Grace?, The Jesus I Never Knew, Where Is God When It Hurts? and Rumors of Another World, from which this booklet is an excerpt.

Product Details

  • Pamphlet: 32 pages
  • Publisher: IVP Books (July 29, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 087784044X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0877840442
  • Product Dimensions: 4.7 x 3.5 x 0.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,637,782 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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I worked for 10 years as an Editor and then Publisher for Campus Life magazine. There I learned journalistic skills (there's no tougher audience than teenagers), but every year it seemed I wrote fewer and fewer words. In 1980 my wife Janet and I moved to downtown Chicago where I began a career as a freelance writer. (She has worked as a social worker and hospice chaplain--which gives me plenty of material to write about!) We lived there until 1992, when we moved to the foothills of Colorado. I've written around 20 books, most of them still in print, thankfully. Three of them I coauthored with Dr. Paul Brand, who influenced me more than any single person. My own favorites are "Soul Survivor" and "Reaching for the Invisible God" because both of them forced me to dig deep and get personal. I'm a pilgrim, still "in recovery" from a bad church upbringing, searching for a faith that makes its followers larger and not smaller. I feel overwhelming gratitude that I can make a living writing about the questions that interest me.

Please visit my website at www.philipyancey.com for more information, essays, events, travel notes, and a blog.

There is also an official Facebook page at: http://www.facebook.com/PhilipYancey?v=wall

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars Life-changing., January 31, 2006
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Jennifer L. (Santa Rosa, CA) - See all my reviews
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The reviewer below is correct that Designer Sex is a chapter lifted from Yancey's Rumors of Another World. However, I found that chapter to be the most powerful in a book of consistently mind-blowing writing, so based purely on the material alone it deserves the highest rating. I strongly recommend Rumors, if only to give further context to Designer Sex, but if you're strapped for cash and need a book that can tell you more than how to wait, but why to wait; that is not paralyzed by the fear of lust that pervades most other Christian writings on the topic; and that can mold your relationships and your life into alignment with God's pleasure, $1.50 ain't bad.
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54 of 68 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Don't be a sucker, January 4, 2006
This review is from: Designer Sex (Booklets) (Pamphlet)
If you're looking to add another Yancey title to your library and your amazon.com search brings this title up, look closer. First, notice how surprisingly cheap it is. Then, notice the dimensions. That's right, it's $1.50 and about the size of a tract. At this point, question your decision to buy it.

Then, if, based on the low price, you decide to buy it anyway, you'll probably find yourself reading something that seems very familiar. At first, you can't quite place it. Then, it keeps getting more familiar until you stumble across a key phrase that sends you turning back to the copyright page. There, you learn that this little booklet is 'taken with permission from Rumors of Another World.' A quick trip to your bookshelf and a glance at the table of contents verifies that it's nothing more than an excerpted chapter from Rumors.

Essentially, this book is another publisher's ploy to make a quick buck (and not much more than that!) on people who don't look closely enough at things before they buy them (or put them on their wish list and have other people buy them). If you see this title and are interested, go buy Rumors. Don't waste your $1.50 (plus shipping!) on this 32-page ploy.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars well worth the money, January 3, 2007
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Peri Zahnd (St. Joseph, Missouri USA) - See all my reviews
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I think "Rumors of Another World" is one of Yancey's finest. I devoured it in a few days spent doing nothing else. And Designer Sex is one of the most thought provoking chapters there--I have referred back to it many times. Each chapter of this book could be read independently, ditto "Soul Survivor". Why not publish it independently? Many people I know sadly aren't readers, but could benefit greatly from this "tract," and probably would be more inclined to read it than if given the whole book.
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