A Terrifying Grace: Sexuality, Romance and Marriage in Christian History
By Rob Yule
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Romance and sexual intimacy are among lifes highest joys. How we handle our sexuality is an ultimate challenge, particularly in todays sexualised global culture.
Rob Yule looks at a fascinating selection of romantic relationships from throughout Christian history, from Augustine, Abelard and Helose, and the Luthers to Billy and Ruth Graham and Pope Saint John Paul II. Illustrating how challenging and far-from-straightforward the relationship of men and women is in real life, he draws many insights for relationships and marriage today.
A Terrifying Grace explores the romantic relationships of leading Christians throughout history and how they handled sex and marriage.
What were their relationships and marriages like?
What did they believe or teach about sexuality and marriage?
Did their marriages or celibate lives live up to their professed beliefs?
How did they handle the joys, pains, temptations, and responsibilities of their intimate relationships, alongside their public life and witness?
Even great Christians have struggled to handle their intimate relationships. We can learn much from them how to live with integrity in todays hypersexualised culture.
Rob Yule
Rob Yule is a retired New Zealand Presbyterian minister and a former Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand. He was chaplain at Victoria University of Wellington in the 1970s, a leader in charismatic renewal, and pastored churches in Christchurch, Palmerston North, and Auckland. He lectured in the Manawatu Branch of the Bible College of New Zealand and on mission trips to the Czech Republic. He and his wife Christene have been married nearly fifty years and have five children and fifteen grandchildren
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