Fire Within: Desire, Sexuality, Longing, and God

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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 han

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  • Author: Rolheiser, Ronald
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Page Count: 112
  • Publish Date: March 01 2021
  • ISBN10: 1640606661
  • Language: English
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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.

Author: Ronald Rolheiser
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Paraclete Press (MA)
Published: 03/01/2021
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.2lbs
Size: 6.80h x 5.00w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781640606661
Language: English

Author

Rolheiser, Ronald

Binding

ISBN10

1640606661

ISBN13

9781640606661

Page Count

112

Published Date

March 01, 2021

Language

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