Sexuality and holy longing : embracing intimacy in a broken world / [print]
Lisa Graham McMinn ; foreword by Stanley J. Grenz.
- San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, (c)2004.
- xiii, 204 pages ; 24 cm
Rites of passage : the quest for manhood and womanhood -- Adolescence : awakenings and choices -- Sleeping alone : sexuality and singleness -- Birthing babies : the essence of early motherhood (and fatherhood) -- Married sex : mysteries of marriage -- Sexuality and culture : bodies and scripts -- Epilogue : beauty from ashes.
This book shows how many Christians, including pastors, parents and leaders, have unwittingly absorbed many cultural ideas about sexuality that are not supported by the Bible. As people created by God for relationship, our sexuality guarantees that we will long for and be drawn toward others, McMinn provides a blueprint for understanding sexuality--and our longing to be loved--at all stages of life (childhood, teen years, early adulthood, midlife, and old age), and addresses tough topics including sexuality for those who are single (divorced, widowed, or never married). She also details practical solutions for ways that parents, educators, and churches can nurture others and ourselves in the quest to understand sexuality as a longing that draws us toward God and others, and to embrace it as a God-given gift. Study questions at the end of each chapter call us to action in reclaiming our sexuality through grace.--From publisher's description.