A down-to-earth examine the non secular energy of sex

Sex and the Sacred examines the religious measurement of human sexuality in a fashion that's freed from non secular association yet nonetheless open to conventional faith and trust in God. Dr. Daniel Helminiak, writer of the best-selling What the Bible particularly Says approximately Homosexuality, seems on the courting among sexuality and spirituality, first, from a humanistic viewpoint and, then, a extra typical Christian viewpoint. specifically, he encourages LGBTI humans to reclaim their non secular history with out apology. This distinct ebook emphasizes non secular dedication as a vital side of LGBTI/queer cognizance and addresses such burning topics as popping out, the significance of self-acceptance, homosexual marriage, homosexual bashing, and the ethics of homosexual intercourse.

Sex and the Sacred combines a mental method of spirituality with good judgment and compassion, inspiring a holiday from moralistic faith and an knowing of what real spirituality capability. The e-book applies this knowing to Christian subject matters resembling the Bible, Fundamentalism, and the way forward for Christianity, and indicates how popping out was once a subject for Jesus, how gay adventure pertains to the Christian Trinity, and the way Western Civilization turned so sex-negative.

Sex and the Sacred provides in spite of everything an intensive imaginative and prescient of Christianity open to everybody. non secular leaders of all denominations, educators, counselors, participants of the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender neighborhood, non-religious non secular seekers, and an individual drawn to the connection among spirituality and sexuality will locate this booklet enlightening and uplifting.

Sex and the Sacred examines:

• the non secular force that's equipped into human sexuality
• the normal spiritual arguments opposed to homosexual marriage
• a sustained argument that Biblical Fundamentalism isn't really Christian
• non secular classes from the AIDS epidemic
• definitely the right and fallacious of sex—queer and otherwise
• homosexuality in Catholic instructing and practice
• sexual ethics with out religion
• a imaginative and prescient for a renewed Christianity inside an international community