Thinking About Sex

By Adrian Thatcher

“Very many people, including not a few Christians, do not find the Christian tradition very helpful for making sense of sex. It is not that people willfully forsake a demanding sexual ethic for a more easygoing worldly one. It is that they often cannot see the point of its ‘demandingness.’”

Thus begins author Adrian Thatcher’s project of laying out an unashamedly and wholeheartedly liberal approach to sex and sexuality. Fully aware that for some the word liberal has taken on negative connotations, Thatcher builds on a liberalism in which individuals are encouraged to make up their minds about what faith is and how they are to apply it to their own lives, recognizing that within the boundaries of faith there is much scope for variety in individual belief and practice.

Using familiar theological ideas, biblical passages, and Christian doctrines, Thatcher sets out to place them intelligibly in a twenty-first-century context. Subjects covered include desire, bodies, sexual difference, marriage, spirituality, and sexualities.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Release date: Dec 1, 2015
• ISBN: 9781506401003

Adrian Thatcher

Adrian Thatcher is Honorary Professor in the Department of Religion and Theology, University of Exeter, U.K. Author of 16 books and editor or co-editor of another five, he is managing editor of Modern Believing, a Trustee of Modern Church, and an Anglican.

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