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One of the major opponents of the gay rights movement has been conservative, organized Christian churches. Gay lives and gay sexuality have been viewed by many Christians as antithetical to their religious beliefs and dangerous to society as a whole. In Sex and the Church, theologian Kathy Rudy reevaluates traditional Christian positions on both sexuality and gender and comes up with surprising questions and conclusions. Is gender a good--or even moral--way to evaluate a person's relationship to God? How do we discuss the morality of sexual behavior? Is the traditional family the best social structure for a Christian commitment? Rudy is respectful to mainstream Christian beliefs but determined to pursue her arguments even when they conflict with orthodoxy. Rudy's text is smart, incisive, and fearless in its attempt to locate the meaning and truth of "morality" in sexual desire and everyday life. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Rudy (ethics and women's studies, Duke Univ.) invites Christians to examine their ideas of family, community, and the morality of sex. Rudy argues that by asking whether gay and lesbian couples should be ordained or married, we avoid other sociosexual questions. The question is not male or female, gay or straight, but how the act of sex affects one's relationship with God and the Christian community. Rudy examines various understandings of sexuality, both historically and currently, in order to codify a Christian-based system of sexual ethics. As the Christian Right brings a resurgence in the popularity of the cult of domesticity, with women and mothers being the connection for the family to God, we genderize the relationship with God. Rudy argues that society will be able to transform the church and find God only by returning to a Christian community and open discussions of moral and immoral sex. Scholarly work for large religious collections.?L. Kriz, West Des Moines P.L., Ia.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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One of the major opponents of the gay rights movement has been conservative, organized Christian churches. Gay lives and gay sexuality have been viewed by many Christians as antithetical to their religious beliefs and dangerous to society as a whole. In Sex and the Church, theologian Kathy Rudy reevaluates traditional Christian positions on both sexuality and gender and comes up with surprising questions and conclusions. Is gender a good--or even moral--way to evaluate a person's relationship to God? How do we discuss the morality of sexual behavior? Is the traditional family the best social structure for a Christian commitment? Rudy is respectful to mainstream Christian beliefs but determined to pursue her arguments even when they conflict with orthodoxy. Rudy's text is smart, incisive, and fearless in its attempt to locate the meaning and truth of "morality" in sexual desire and everyday life. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Rudy (ethics and women's studies, Duke Univ.) invites Christians to examine their ideas of family, community, and the morality of sex. Rudy argues that by asking whether gay and lesbian couples should be ordained or married, we avoid other sociosexual questions. The question is not male or female, gay or straight, but how the act of sex affects one's relationship with God and the Christian community. Rudy examines various understandings of sexuality, both historically and currently, in order to codify a Christian-based system of sexual ethics. As the Christian Right brings a resurgence in the popularity of the cult of domesticity, with women and mothers being the connection for the family to God, we genderize the relationship with God. Rudy argues that society will be able to transform the church and find God only by returning to a Christian community and open discussions of moral and immoral sex. Scholarly work for large religious collections.?L. Kriz, West Des Moines P.L., Ia.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Theology (Cambridge Companions to Religion) by Susan Frank Parsons on page 38
- Irreconcilable Differences?: Intellectual Stalemate in the Gay Rights Debate by Thomas C. Caramagno in Back Matter
- Religion in America Since 1945 by Patrick Allitt in Back Matter
- The Secular Bible: Why Nonbelievers Must Take Religion Seriously by Jacques Berlinerblau in Back Matter
- Be Not Deceived: The Sacred and Sexual Struggles of Gay and Ex-Gay Christian Men by Michelle Wolkomir in Back Matter
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