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For most religious people, the words God and sex never go together.
God is conceived of as holy, pure, sexless, and as morally above the raw desires that so powerfully beset us. Sex, on the other hand, is conceived of as earthy and unholy, something we must snatch, and not without guilt, from the gods. Christianity has struggled mightily with sex; so too have most other religions. And yet when we look at sexual desire and ask where it comes from, there can be only one answer. It comes from God.
This is a book on desire, its experience, its origins, its meaning, and how it might be generatively channeled. Sexuality is inside us to help lure us back to God, but dealing with this fire inside us is a lifelong struggle. Ron Rolheiser sheds light on this mystery and the journey it takes us on in these tantalizing fragments that help give us permission to feel what we feel and know that God is still smiling on us.
Contents
Part One: Who We Are
1/ We Are Made for Longing
2/ Raw Desire
3/ Feeding off Sacred Fire
4/ Restless Hearts Yearn for God
5/ Caverns of Feeling
6/ Dark Memory
7/ Our Congenital Complexity
8/ Our Struggle with Grandiosity
9/ In Praise of Skin
Part Two: Applications
10/ Sex as Sacrament
11/ The Sacramentality of Everyday Life
12/ Understanding the Desert of Loneliness
13/ An Honest Anger
14/ Desire into Prayer
15/ Sexuality
16/ Re-imagining Chastity
17 / What Is Purity?
18 / Living with Feeling and Soul
19/ A Plea for the Soul
20 / What We Long For
