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Desire and Denial: Celibacy and the Church by [Gordon Thomas]

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Desire and Denial confronts the fundamentals of Christian history, capturing the powerful interplay between the limits of sexuality within the Roman Catholic Church’s priesthood and sisterhood and compassionate accounts of mystic forces that make many doubt their calling.

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Gordon Thomas is a political and investigative journalist and the author of fifty-three books, published in more than thirty countries and in dozens of languages. The total sales of his works exceed forty-five million copies.

He has been a widely syndicated foreign correspondent and was a writer and producer for three flagship BBC programs: Man Alive, Tomorrow’s World, and Horizon. He contributes regularly to Facta, a respected monthly Japanese news magazine. Thomas was the lead expert for a twelve-part series on international intelligence for Ian Punnett’s Coast to Coast, the most listened-to overnight radio broadcast in North America, with three million weekly listeners. He has recently appeared on Euronews (available in ten languages and three hundred million households) and Russia Today.

He has received numerous awards for his reporting, including an International Television Award and two Mark Twain Society Awards. Shipwreck won an Edgar Award.

Four of Thomas’s books—Voyage of the Damned, Ruin from the Air, The Day the Bubble Burst, and The Day Their World Ended—have been made into feature films starring such A-listers as Paul Newman, Billy Crystal, Robert Vaughn, and Jacqueline Bisset. The Day Guernica Died is currently under option.

Thomas’s most recent bestseller is Gideon’s Spies: Mossad’s Secret Warriors. Published in sixteen languages and forty countries, Gideon’s Spies is known throughout the world as the leading resource on Israeli intelligence. It was made into a major documentary for Channel 4 in Britain, which Thomas wrote and narrated, called The Spy Machine. The Observer called The Spy Machine a “clear” picture of Israeli intelligence operations, and the Times called it “impressive” and ”chilling.”

A member of the London Speaker Bureau and Macmillan Speakers, Thomas continues to grow his already-impressive platform, lecturing widely on the secret world of intelligence. He also regularly provides expert analysis on intelligence for US and European television and radio programs. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00L9N8U36
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Open Road Media (July 1, 2014)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 1, 2014
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2921 KB
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Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 536 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #857,984 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #101 in Adult Christian Ministry (Kindle Store)
- #322 in Clergy
- #658 in Adult Christian Ministry (Books)

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Gordon Thomas is a political and investigative journalist and the author of 53 books, published in more than 30 countries and in dozens of languages. The total sales of his works exceed 45 million copies.

Thomas’ most recent bestseller is Gideon’s Spies: Mossad’s Secret Warriors. Published in 16 languages and 40 countries Gideon’s Spies is known throughout the world as the leading resource on Israeli intelligence. An updated edition will be published in 2012 by St. Martin’s Press. Gideon’s Spies was made into a major documentary for Channel Four in Britain, which Thomas wrote and narrated, called The Spy Machine. The Observer called The Spy Machine a “clear” picture of Israeli intelligence operations, and The Times called it “impressive,” and ”chilling.”

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Matthew J. Rieder

and that the Christian church did just fine with married clergy for the greater part of its ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 4, 2017

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I must confess that I got bogged down and didn't get through the whole thing. The book was light on some things that interest me, such as Paul pointing out that Peter was married, and that the Christian church did just fine with married clergy for the greater part of its history. The book was a bit light on the economic motive for the celebacy push, the desire to avoid fights with heirs over potential church property. I was a bit skeptical concerning some of the psychological harms of celebacy, and I found some of the stories of troubled celebates to be uninteresting.

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Honest and frank

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 18, 2017

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This book surprised me in the openness of the religious regarding their romantic and sexual desires and how they reconciled these desires with the church's insistence on celibacy for priests and nuns. Not at all a dry treatise on celibacy but an in-depth look at the lives and beliefs of various clergy.

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Ray Chafe

Three Stars

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 28, 2015

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too much repetition and disjointed stories ! ! !

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Nani

Desire and Denial: Celibacy and the Church

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 19, 2012

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This book is very well written and shows how the Church's requirement of celibacy has hurt so many men and women. A must-read for Catholics to understand why their church is imploding.

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Mark Stanton Wooley

Highly recommended

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 16, 2017

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Helps my neuropathy a lot. Highly recommended

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