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  • Paperback: 144 pages
  • Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press; 1st edition (January 1, 1988)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0664240658
  • ISBN-13: 978-0664240653
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.3 x 9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe Intimate Connection: Male Sexuality, Masculine Spiritual
By A Customer on December 2, 2002
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Men are interested in men but usually get to know about each other through competition. The ultimate competition is war, the ultimate intimacy for men is war. How best do you get to know your opponent, you see how he fights. Men start wars. Peace will have to come from men then as well. We will need to get in touch with each other literally and figuratively, and it must find a peaceful means, this will be sexual and spiritual . Male to male attractions will have to overcome homophobia. James Nelson helps us take a look at that reality. He is honest and sound in his theology. You always like the works that you agree with especially when they offer you a new insight, new angle, new perspective, and scholarship your background does not afford you. Nelson's is a fresh work , easy read, yet has depth in his honest self disclosure. As peacemakers men will have to allow intimacy and physical intimacy will be a challenge for we seem to automatically link intimacy with genital sexuality. If we link intimacy with our spirituality we will see again the sexual. How do men learn to interact spiritually and sexually with each other and not genitally. Nelson raises the question and starts your thought but does not resolve the tension with a solution. But he serves us by helping us to acknowledge the nature of the problem of men getting to know men in meaningful not competative ways. Spirit, sex, homophobia, are well defined and he helps create a framework to move from, to move toward peace.
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5.0 out of 5 starsExplores the integration of soul, diety, ownership of self
By A Customer on October 9, 1996
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Several of James Nelson's books, have formed a foundation for my understing of myself in the context of, and relaitionship with God/faith. "The Intimate Connection" directs the reader's attention to specific areas of sexuality and a man's relationship to God, of a man's view and acceptence of himself in his totality as being key to his acceptence of God as living and vital. The book is based on Nelson's views of the embodiment of God and Christ.

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4.0 out of 5 starsit all depends on your theology
By Mr. D. P. Jay on August 18, 2015
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Love is the unfinished business of the sexual revolution.

It all depends on your theology. If your god is the super zapper, doctrinally incarnation the sees God above skies , who comes down into our mess and sorts it out like superman then retreats back above heavens. The image of Jesus is God zapping our world from outside – God’s penis sows the seed in Mary, and now in sacraments from male priests. Prayer is asking for a zap – not thy will be done.

But prayer is not asking for something and getting it. It is passivity, tuning into God's will - contemplation not intercession.

God in flesh is, rather, a statement that God is in flesh – the ascension means that enfleshment is permanent.

Flesh/spirit dualism ia not from Paul - for him, sarx was people without the spirit

We need, rather, to see God within all already - Jesus as uniquely vulnerable and alive to the God inside him.

Belief in resurrection of the body means belief in need for males to allow God to love in and through them.

Yet men are out of touch with their bodies - something we have rather than are
Divine eros is the fundamental energy of universe. God is in the depths - flow of desire. God is centre of all desires - he yearns, savours, plays, needs, pleasures, confirms, confronts, celebrates. Males need the same instead of competing and hiding their true selves.

Fear of emotions mean men that never bare their depths to one another.

To experience sexual pleasure, they need to let go of control.

Cut off from the full repertoire of human beings, men are defined as only one thing and projecting on to others everything else, e.g. communists, gays, females. Yet Kinsey suggested nobody entirely hetero or homo.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsThis one was hard to get out too!!!!!!!
By Dick Pound on August 16, 2006
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You want to trade sane, normal and sexually normal healthy people

For a Journey to Mars and Beyond??????????

I DON'T THINK SO..........NOT IF I HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY ABOUT IT!!!!!!!!!!
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